pick-pockets

At the metro, I don't take the escalator — too many pick-pockets.

Statistics (or: Walking to Work through Lexington Market) 2010

This yearly tide of travelers has spawned a parasite class of thieves, extortionists, and pick-pockets, who line the highways home.

Boing Boing 2008

This place is close and crowded and full of pick-pockets, although, again, if you go on a Sunday, you'll be unmolested.

galleon trade edition 2008

In old times Laverna was the Goddess of thieves, pick-pockets, and all sorts of pilferers, — a connexion of names that gave me no small satisfaction.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Caution should be extended to public transportation, too; after all, pick-pockets have been known to take advantage of the jostling bumping crowds during the holiday season to slip into pockets unnoticed and steal wallets.

711…Rite Aid. ‘Tis the season to be wary!!! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

When shoplifters and pick-pockets and prostitutes and everybody else who is on the lower end of the spectrum who generally have a tendency to be a minority --

CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2008 2008

A movement in the heart became the flashing hand of consumerist pick-pockets.

Glenn W. Smith: Summers of Love: What the Media is Missing About the Summer of Love 2008

Miss Margland angrily ordered the man to drive on, saying, she was quite sick of being thus for ever infested with beggars; who really came so often, they were no better than pick-pockets.

Camilla 2008

The conniving beggars, crafty pick-pockets and unsavory pimps – who traverse the seedy landscape onscreen in the engaging screen bio-pic – often pressured her for a take of her daily spoils.

La Vie En Rose…Marion Cotillard’s stunning portrayal of Piaf! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

We get a few pick-pockets visiting us during this special time so please be careful.

Malec�n Reloaded 2005