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pickpocket

noun

Definition of pickpocket

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 Speaking of losing things, keep your phone and cards safe from pickpockets with this chic crossbody iPhone case. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2026 Think of it like a team of pickpockets, one of which walks up to ask you for directions while the other swipes your wallet. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 10 July 2026 Said purse needs to be roomy enough to fit all of my travel essentials, but also secure enough to keep my stuff safe from pickpockets. — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 The film stars John Turturro as an old-school pickpocket who finds himself in a dangerous race against time through city streets. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pickpocket

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Noun

In 2018, thieves broke into the home and Usher and Miguel were robbed of $20,000 in cash and a litany of jewelry and watches (the most expensive watch was reportedly worth $220,000).

— Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2026
But the hauls weren’t always the same; in one of them the thieves made off only with a fake diamond worth less than $200.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of thief

Noun

The film moved the action from Boston to New York and made the title character a wealthy art thief instead of a bank robber.

— Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026
When a duo of robbers (Joe Pesci‘s Harry and Daniel Stern‘s Marv) try to break in, Kevin sets a series of traps to deter them.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026

Definition of robber

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Badly in Love manages to break through because the cast of men and women looking for true love are from the Japanese yankii subculture—juvenile delinquents, motorcycle gangsters, troubled women, and more.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026
Ritchson plays a tough guy who falls for a local gangster’s girl.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 21 July 2026

Definition of gangster

Noun

Also in his orbit are a consortium of crooks, including his cousin Freddie, a hip junkie, and Pepper, a taciturn hoodlum who was friends with Ray’s dad, Big Mike, a legendary thief.

— Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026
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.

— Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of hoodlum

Noun

Interestingly, that cigar-smoking biker ruffian was not a character in the DC Comics title of a few years back.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 June 2026
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.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026

Definition of ruffian

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