Thesaurus results for PICKPOCKETS

pickpockets

noun

plural of pickpocket

as in thieves

a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses

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Recent Examples of pickpockets 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 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

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Noun

Hagans said Haitians returning to their home country from America are viewed as wealthy and vulnerable, and are often targeted by thieves and bandits.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026
Only Fortitude could be accessed by thieves, solely due to the production company’s failure to encrypt the drive, the spokesperson alleged.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026

Definition of thieves

Noun

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
The movie was then changed to make Gruber's crew robbers masquerading as terrorists, a key plot point.

— Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of robbers

Noun

The decade ended tumultuously, with the Osmond family’s fortune drained by a series of swindlers and grifters.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
This scam, according to Kent, could be proliferated with the use of AI, which can allow swindlers to enroll in many different college programs at once.

— Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of swindlers

Noun

The president, without providing any clear new evidence, continued to claim Saturday that the majority of the damage to the pool was caused by vandals.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2026
The president, without providing any clear new evidence, continued to allege on Saturday that the majority of the damage to the pool was caused by vandals.

— Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of vandals

Noun

Remember all those fake memoirs from the early 2000s, by all those writers pretending to be addicts and gangsters and Holocaust survivors?

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of gangsters

Noun

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
The first pictures McCullin took were of hoodlums and down-and-outs, subjects that reflected his own hardscrabble background.

— Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 31 Jan. 2026

Definition of hoodlums

Noun

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
In fact, the GTW ruffians have to give the Big Honey some props for his relative restraint in the heat of the moment.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026

Definition of ruffians

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