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
Three people suspecting in a series of pickpocket crimes in San Francisco's Chinatown were arrested over the weekend after a weeks-long investigation, police said Tuesday.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
Arteta has been known to enlist everything from pickpockets to a naked flame to help convey his ideas to his players.
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James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
The film centers on a pickpocket who survives by exploiting the desires of closeted men, until his detached worldview is upended when one of his marks returns seeking closeness rather than settling scores.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 May 2026
California Democrats talk about affordability like a pickpocket promising to help find your wallet.
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Matt Klink,
Daily News,
14 May 2026
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
Arteta has been known to enlist everything from pickpockets to a naked flame to help convey his ideas to his players.
—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
The film centers on a pickpocket who survives by exploiting the desires of closeted men, until his detached worldview is upended when one of his marks returns seeking closeness rather than settling scores.
—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 May 2026
California Democrats talk about affordability like a pickpocket promising to help find your wallet.
—
Matt Klink,
Daily News,
14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
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Unlike some other luggage tags, this option only displays your name, keeping the rest of your information shielded from curious onlookers and potential thieves.
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Last year, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that thieves had pried off a bronze plaque dedicating the building to the history of philadelphia from its main entrance.
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The robbers got off the bus, and were taken into police custody soon afterward, police said.
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In this new collection, Georgia poet laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores a hardscrabble childhood in Florida and her family of colorful characters including a sometimes-homeless bag lady and a notorious bank robber.
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The decade ended tumultuously, with the Osmond family’s fortune drained by a series of swindlers and grifters.
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The New York Times later reported that Bankman-Fried was placed in solitary confinement because the crypto swindler violated the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ rules.
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Ferro pleaded guilty in October 2025 to conspiracy to participate in a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization.
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The characters were based on a real family of bookmakers and racketeers who once lived in England.
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Neither immigrant family should be linked to violent gangsters, of course.
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By telling a relatively straightforward story that blends real people from the era of the Gotti Mafia family with imagined characters, Martin Scorsese's dramedy biopic about a kid who falls in love with the gangster life is as even-keeled as anything the director has made.
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In the past decade, the leadership of the Kinahan organization has become rich and cosmopolitan, and their life styles have started to resemble those of international businessmen more than of street hoodlums.
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The Knesset recently legalized the death penalty for Arabs who murder Jews, but not for the hoodlum Israeli settlers who have been killing West Bank residents to seize their land.
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Interestingly, that cigar-smoking biker ruffian was not a character in the DC Comics title of a few years back.
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The series has lent a cinematic gangster attraction to the Peaky Blinders, yet the term itself was not one gang — as depicted in the show — but a generic expression from the late 19th century for the ‘street ruffians’ of Birmingham, born out of the city’s ring of poverty.
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Ditto Hugh Jackman’s unerring performance — perhaps his finest dramatic work yet — as a savage, unfeeling thug and unrepentant murderer and thief.
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The actions of these thugs, who should be imprisoned for a long while, is the cause of denying real Knicks fans the chance to watch the game communally.
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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