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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pick-pocket.

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Examples

  • However, let me also note, we witnessed some cute children playing tricks and telling jokes and entertaining some foreigners who were watching and admiring them; and only a few moments later they discovered it was a ploy as they were pick-pocketed while being distracted by the children.

    To The Sea … Finally! – Late March Will 2009

  • In Game 6 in Chicago, the Bulls were still in the game in the fourth period, trailing 81-79 with about eight minutes left, when Detroit guard Joe Dumars pick-pocketed Jordan as he drove to the basket.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Antolín Alcaraz was the first to be dispossessed, and when Chris Eagles whipped over the cross, Nigel Reo-Coker's chest converted his first Premier League goal for three years; makeshift left-back Steve Gohouri was pick-pocketed by Kevin Davies on the stroke of half-time to offer David Ngog the chance to open his Bolton account; and Alcaraz's indecision was exposed at the death when Eagles pounced, and capped a virtuoso display with a precision finish.

    Bolton's win against Wigan gets Gary Cahill off the rollercoaster 2011

  • In Game 6 in Chicago, the Bulls were still in the game in the fourth period, trailing 81-79 with about eight minutes left, when Detroit guard Joe Dumars pick-pocketed Jordan as he drove to the basket.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • I myself was pick-pocketed and would never set forth in the calle del cartucho, literally Cartridge Street, a dangerous area which lay just a stone's throw from Bogotá's main cathedral, presidential palace and national Congress.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left? 2010

  • "I always stashed my money when traveling so I don't lose it or get pick-pocketed," Mr. Scott said.

    New Crime Trend Is Truly Below the Belt 2010

  • A man in a Santa costume was pick-pocketed in Fells Point, reported the Baltimore Sun on Thursday.

    Mid-day crime roundup Washington Post staff 2010

  • When Paul pick-pocketed McInnis and went the other way for an uncontested two-handed dunk, New Orleans took its largest lead at 86-56 with about two minutes remaining in the third quarter.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • At the news conference announcing the new campaign, one of the members of the re-branding committee, Isawa Elaigwa, told reporters he'd just been pick-pocketed.

    Nigeria Sets Out to Undo a Reputation for Trouble 2009

  • Then again, the old Times Square would have made an ideal backdrop for this photo, since it would have been easy to imagine the trainer getting pick-pocketed, or hustled by a con man, or being forced to spend the night in an X-rated movie theater due to lack of funds.

    Raising the Stakes: The Contest Continues BikeSnobNYC 2008

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