as in thief
a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses
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Recent Examples of pickpocket
But these bags, while undeniably gorgeous, are easy targets for pickpockets.
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
Cope: How to avoid pickpockets and street scams while traveling.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
An inside pocket stashes any travel essentials securely and out of the way of potential pickpockets.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2025
The zippered top helps prevent pickpockets, and the back zipper pocket is a great spot for storing valuables like a wallet or phone.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2024
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
Cope: How to avoid pickpockets and street scams while traveling.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
An inside pocket stashes any travel essentials securely and out of the way of potential pickpockets.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2025
The zippered top helps prevent pickpockets, and the back zipper pocket is a great spot for storing valuables like a wallet or phone.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for pickpocket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
Noun
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Unbeknownst to the thieves, some of the containers were equipped with tracking devices.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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Shortly after the thieves cut the Arizona train's air hose on Jan. 13, a BNSF police officer who was in the area spotted several cases of Nike shoes beside the train and later saw several people loading Nike cases into a U-Haul truck and a Ford Econoline truck nearby.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
1 Aug. 2024
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While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.—
Anthony Gregory / Made by History,
TIME,
23 July 2024
Noun
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In her ethnographic study of Jamaican gangs, Jaffe argues against seeing the neighborhood strongmen—or dons—as primarily violent, exploitative gangsters.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When Jennifer Lawrence isn’t full-frontally beating the bejesus out of insouciant hoodlums, that is.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2025
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However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
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Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
Noun
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The 20th-century Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is under siege from a greedy developer (James Bond star Timothy Dalton) and his thugs in the new season.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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But authorities now believe the most heinous acts were the handiwork of a one-time nursing student from Puerto Rico who evolved over a decade from teenage burglar to drug trafficker to rampaging thug.—
Martin E. Comas,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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