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a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses
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Recent Examples of pickpockets
Afterwards, walk through the dazzling Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, pausing to admire the glass dome and beautiful mosaic floors (but beware of pickpockets).
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Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
From scrunchies that secretly double as drink covers to zipper clips that stop pickpockets from opening your backpack, these viral finds prove that travel safety doesn’t have to be cumbersome or expensive.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
From scrunchies that secretly double as drink covers to zipper clips that stop pickpockets from opening your backpack, these viral finds prove that travel safety doesn’t have to be cumbersome or expensive.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpockets
Noun
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Steve and Barb Willis, owners Just Farmin', believe thieves broke into their barn overnight almost two weeks ago.—
Brady Williams,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 Oct. 2025
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Other cast include the ‘Legacies’–students who come from generations of master thieves.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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One of the slain robbers is Parker’s longtime accomplice Philly Webb (Thomas Jane), whose widow, Grace (Gretchen Mol), only half buys it when Parker promises to get her Philly’s share and ice his killer.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Tales behind 9 historic Arizona hotels Arizona's oldest hotels faced natural and economic disasters, even a brush with bank robbers.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, posing as the original customer, the swindlers cancelled the order to get a refund.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Some swindlers thumb their nose at both and keep their cons going.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Bear West’s owners in the online appeal said their eatery had been repeatedly targeted by vandals in the days leading to the fire, stopping short of saying the early Thursday fire was deliberately set.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Following a community vigil Sunday night, vandals struck.—
Lorraine Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Now is the time to push back in defense of free speech – as strongly and as publicly as the gangsters on the left and right are threatening to revoke it.—
Onkar Ghate,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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Unlike Mare, whose community was cloistered and intimate, Task builds a wider world of dealers, gangsters, and thieves, not always to its benefit.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
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Aleah and Grasso end up saving Lizzie’s ass and capturing the hoodlums.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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However, hoodlums and thugs who throw objects at the players give up their rights and should be removed, charged, and possibly jailed.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Aug. 2025
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Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.—
Rabih Alameddine
September 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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As night falls, armed thugs roam the streets and families pick up guns to protect themselves.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Pickpockets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpockets. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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