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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A pickpocket.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing their contents (a practice said to have been common when men wore purses at their girdles); hence, a pickpocket.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

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‘cutpurse’ has been looked up 1418 times, added to 13 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 12.