pickpocket
Speech parts
1. pickpocket - Noun
2. pickpocket - Verb
Meaning
One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
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Examples
Among other incidents, Mercury shows himself to be an expert pickpocket, while Neptune causes chaos in the fish market.
Born in Columbia to an alcoholic prostitute mother who beat her, as a child Griselda would dig graves to bury the dead in the civil war-torn country, and by her teens she was also a prostitute and pickpocket.
Through mere happenstance Harley finds herself thrust into a story featuring The Huntress (a vengeful assailant), Black Canary (a vigilante songbird), detective Renee Montoya and teenage pickpocket Cassandra Cain.
Pickpocket Ensemble, international cafe music, at 7 p.m. at Caffe Trieste, 2500 San Pablo Ave., at Dwight.
She fails at her mission due to the ensuing riots, but an attempt to pickpocket a boy named Cal serendipitously lands her a job as a serving girl at the summertime castle of King Tiberias.
For example, Oliver Twist turns out to be the lost nephew of the upper-class family that rescues him from the dangers of the pickpocket group.