Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who steals from pockets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who picks pockets; one who steals, or makes a practice of stealing, from the pockets of others.
- n. A plant, chiefly the shepherd's-purse: so called from its impoverishing the soil. Also pickpurse.
Wiktionary
- n. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
- v. To pick pockets; to steal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
Etymologies
- From pick + pocket. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They ARE cunning, and also funny, entertaining, subversive, charming … I just love how the books position themselves on the margins in all kinds of ways and your image of the pickpocket is great!”
“A pickpocket is extra-legal, but it in no way follows that he needs to be faced with extra-legal force.”
“Thanks for the laugh; oh and yea Pat the pickpocket is my cousin and she says hi Jack!”
“The qualifications for a pickpocket are a light tread, a delicate sense of touch, combined with firm nerves.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
“He that steals little is called a pickpocket, but he that steals much is called a pillar of the church.”
“A notorious pickpocket could not even be arrested, much less convicted by a civil court, simply on the ground of being commonly known as a pickpocket; while such evidence would convict and expel him from any ordinary society.”
13. Legal Rights of Assemblies and Trial of Their Members. 75. Trial of Members of Societies
“A notorious pickpocket could not even be arrested, much less convicted, by a civil court, simply on the ground of being commonly known as a pickpocket; while such evidence would convict and expel him from any ordinary society.”
Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies
“Cameron and colleagues then compared the genes of the two fly groups and identified a gene called pickpocket 28”
“The girl felt some one feeling, as she supposed, for her pocket-book, and she started to run, yelling, "pickpocket," and left the burning polonaise in Mr. Field's hands.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pickpocket’.
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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Agentive Exocentric [V+N]N Compounds
Agentive and Instrumental Exocentric Verb-Noun Compounds that are still found in Modern English to some degree.
breakwater, sellsword, breakfast, scarecrow, cutthroat, pickpocket, turncoat, killjoy
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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dynamite's Words
avant-garde, secret, shutters, brassiere, devanagari, lotus, composition, film, vanguard, ultra, brocade, voile and 41 more...
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chimes at midnight, the trial, touch of evil, fanny and alexander, scenes from a mar..., three colors: red, the third man, notorious, band of outsiders, happy together, double indemnity, persona and 67 more...
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The Raff of Con
Words associated with grifting and other fraud. Watch your wallet!
scam, swindle, fraud, hoax, matchstick men, nigeria, 419, phishing, pretext, misdirection, pickpocket, cheat and 49 more...
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