Pickpocket
['pɪkpɒkɪt] or ['pɪkpɑkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.
Edited by Amber--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Typist: Shane
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed in harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her pocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's envy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through these evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel. If she picks others' pockets, she will incur the displeasure of a companion by her coarse behavior.
Typed by Bush
Examples
- Did I feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when I thought of that girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Do you feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when you think of that girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When there is no more to be got out of them, he turns burglar or pickpocket, or robs a temple. Plato. The Republic.
- Are they, then, any better or other than pickpockets? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Checker: Melanie