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
But centuries after travelers first started flocking to Venice, braving the crowds, lines and pickpockets still feels worth it.
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Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Rome is known to be a relatively safe city (though tourists should be careful about pickpockets around popular sites) and easy to get around.
—Daliah Singer, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
Grace, an expert pickpocket, removes the thumb drive at the exact millisecond the Entity is trapped inside, allowing for the artificial intelligence's capture without triggering a nuclear war or destruction of cyberspace across Earth.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Currently in production in New York City, the film follows Harry (Turturro), a career pickpocket who is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
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Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Rome is known to be a relatively safe city (though tourists should be careful about pickpockets around popular sites) and easy to get around.
—Daliah Singer, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
Grace, an expert pickpocket, removes the thumb drive at the exact millisecond the Entity is trapped inside, allowing for the artificial intelligence's capture without triggering a nuclear war or destruction of cyberspace across Earth.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Currently in production in New York City, the film follows Harry (Turturro), a career pickpocket who is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
Noun
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The Nope actress stars as Zoe, a conniving thief who plots to steal an armored truck, in the heist-comedy The Pickup.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Robert De Niro is Neil McCauley, a master thief planning a daring bank robbery with the help of his crew (including Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, and Danny Trejo), and Al Pacino is LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, obsessed with bringing McCauley to justice.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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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
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The book was about how his father chose conventional family values over the life of a gangster.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
2 Aug. 2025
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That audio clip has been shared some 60,000 times on TikTok, often by Venezuelans ridiculing the notion that everybody from their country is a gangster.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
23 July 2025
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Whereas the Star Wars sequels woefully misused the actor's talents, this movie puts them center stage, playing one of the teen hoodlums who join forces with their victim to fight off nasty, otherworldly invaders.—
Chris Snellgrove,
EW.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Let the bromance begin, as Derringer and Clarke squabble their way back to the Western world, punching out hoodlums and escaping to Poland in the back of a livestock truck.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
2 July 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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At least being a thug is more lucrative than being a poet.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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According to reporting from the Clermont Sun, Fike tweeted ‘#thug the new n word’ in April 2015 and ‘Thug life = thug treatment = no pity from me’ in July 2019.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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