pickpocket

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Recent Examples of pickpocket Zippered pockets with hidden snaps add a smart layer of travel security — no one wants to fumble with a pickpocket in a crowded city. Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025 This can be very helpful in preventing pickpockets from getting your money. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 Once he’s done that, and before The Entity can launch the nukes, Grace uses her pickpocket reflexes to pull a 5D drive that The Entity uploaded itself into. James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for pickpocket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
Noun
  • These simple bags keep your wallet, passport, phone, and other valuables close to your body and safe from thieves.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2025
  • No one was held at gunpoint, there were no injuries, and the thieves made away with more than $100 million worth of jewelry in a matter of minutes.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The all-star cast for the limited series includes Kevin Hart as Chicken Man, the organizer of the party, Taraji P. Henson as his right hand woman Vivian Thomas, Samuel L. Jackson as gangster Frank Moten, and Don Cheadle as J.D. Hudson, the cop trying to figure out who really orchestrated the crime.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 20 June 2025
  • Creature With the Atom Brain sees a gangster force a German scientist to reanimate the dead with atomic radiation in order to pull off crimes (recalling both Frankenstein and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, films that fit neatly alongside the zombie genre).
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Sir Jimmy Crystal gives deeply unsettling vibes from the get-go, and while his bizarre gang of hoodlums do save Spike’s life, it’s implied that Spike may have wandered into a much worse situation.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Critics say police gave up when the rioting erupted in 1992, letting big chunks of the city burn while looters and hoodlums ruled.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ultra Man is sort of Lex's thug and is pretty powerful.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 June 2025
  • This will reveal paid fake thugs posing as protesters becoming violent.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025

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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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