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pickpocket
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pickpocket
English
Noun
Sense: one who steals from the pocket of a passerby
Synonyms
cutpurse
dip
(
dated
)
dipper
foist
(
obsolete
)
footpad
(
obsolete
)
gonoph
(
UK
,
New York
,
dated
)
nip
(
obsolete
)
nipper
(
obsolete
)
pickpocket
pickpocketer
(
chiefly India
)
pickpurse
prig
(
obsolete
)
Hyponyms
autem diver
(
archaic
)
mobsman
(
obsolete
)
prat digger
(
obsolete
)
Hypernyms
criminal
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]
thief
[
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]
Various
Adam Tiler
(
idiomatic
,
archaic
)
street urchin
(
UK
)
Further reading
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