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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 pickpocket [ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt] n → borsaiolo/a, borseggiatore/trice How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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