cutpurse

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Recent Examples of cutpurse Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents: Alexander Pantages, the millionaire theater magnate convicted of raping a 17-year-old dancer. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023 She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way. Longreads, 8 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutpurse
Noun
  • So is master pickpocket/major love interest Grace (Haley Atwell) and ex-henchperson-turned-ally Paris (Pom Klementieff).
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • Welcome to the Big Apple, where the people are pickpockets, the cabbies are kidnappers, and the tunnels are rapists.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Stopping a shoplifter in the act of stealing can be dangerous, and many store policies advise against it, particularly when the value of the item is below the felony threshold.
    Freddy Kuo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This quiet, unobtrusive process pays deterrence dividends far beyond the individual case, as would-be felony shoplifters come to learn that the store deploys this technology and then decide against taking the risk in the first place.
    Freddy Kuo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Cutpurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutpurse. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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