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
The anti-theft zippers can help keep your valuables safe from pickpockets.
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Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Best of all, though, is its zippered main compartment, which is great for warding off pickpockets on public transport and outdoor dining hotspots in major European cities.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
Last year in Amsterdam, the number of pickpocket complaints almost doubled from 2022.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
That's not to say pickpockets can't get into your zippered pockets.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
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Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Best of all, though, is its zippered main compartment, which is great for warding off pickpockets on public transport and outdoor dining hotspots in major European cities.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
Last year in Amsterdam, the number of pickpocket complaints almost doubled from 2022.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
That's not to say pickpockets can't get into your zippered pockets.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pickpocket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
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Statewide, after national media for years showed images of thieves ransacking drug stores, Californians approved a ballot measure that tightened penalties on theft.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score and Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101.Katcy Stephan, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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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
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Many Japanese action films are too much about fantasy, either Yakuza [gangsters] or serial killers.Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Liam Neeson, in perhaps his final appearance in an action film, portrays a gangster trying to make amends.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
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The Chicago Crime Commission’s president was outraged when an Indiana prosecutor posed for a newspaper photographer with his arm around Dillinger earlier in 1934 while the hoodlum awaited trial for killing a police officer during a bank robbery.Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024
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Then again, the fight scene did that on its own, sounding more refined than ruffian.Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
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Despite their reputation as ruffians from the sticks, RSF troops are battle tested, disciplined, and armed to the teeth.Alex de Waal, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
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The climax, in which Dwight and his crew beat a group of nameless Chinese immigrant thugs into submission after they’re used as cannon fodder by Cal Thresher to sabotage Dwight’s wind turbines, is more important to the plot and even uglier.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Like other Diablo games, Hades would support cooperative multiplayer, but in the Arkham games, groups of thugs would circle around the Dark Knight, comic-book style, waiting to be punched in the face.Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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