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pickpocket [ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt] n
a person who steals from the pockets or handbags of others in public places ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
pickpocket noun thief, bag-snatcher, purse-snatcher, cutpurse (archaic) Markets are a pickpocket's paradise. Translations pickpocket [ˈpɪkpɒkɪt] n → pickpocket m/f pick-up pickup [ˈpɪkʌp] n (= small truck) → pick-up m (= improvement) (in trade, economy) → reprise f ... a pick-up in the housing market → une reprise sur le marché de l'immobilier (British) (on record player) → bras m pick-up pick-up joint pick-up joint n → lieu m de drague They had come to the world's most famous pick-up joint → Ils étaient arrivés au lieu de drague le plus célèbre au monde. pick-up point pickup point n (for people) → point m de rendez-vous; (for goods) → point m de collecte pick-up truck pickup truck n → pick-up m pickpocket n → Taschendieb(in) m(f) pickpocket [ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt] n → borsaiolo/a, borseggiatore/trice Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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abandannad beware Cahoot caution Chevalier d'industrie criminality cutpurse dip Dipper down to the wire Fagin Gonoph keep one's eyes open keep one's eyes peeled keep one's eyes skinned look out for Priggery priggish priggishly | There warn't a pickpocket in all London as didn't take a pull at that chain, but the chain 'ud never break, and the watch 'ud never come out, so they soon got tired of dragging such a heavy old gen'l'm'n along the pavement, and he'd go home and laugh till the pigtail wibrated like the penderlum of a Dutch clock. I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it. The waiting-rooms of that Department soon began to be familiar with his presence, and he was generally ushered into them by its janitors much as a pickpocket might be shown into a police-office; the principal difference being that the object of the latter class of public business is to keep the pickpocket, while the Circumlocution object was to get rid of Clennam. |
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