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pick-pocket

pick-pocket is the alternative spelling of pickpocket.

Meaning of pickpocket

Noun

pickpocket (plural pickpockets)

  1. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
    • Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 52

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Forms of pick-pocket

Noun
pluralpick-pockets
Verb
third-person singular presentpick-pockets
present participlepick-pocketing
past participlepick-pocketed
pastpick-pocketed

Questions about pick-pocket

What is pick-pocket the alternative spelling of?
Pick-pocket is the alternative spelling of pickpocket.

Words near pick-pocket in the dictionary

  1. pick-me girls
  2. pick-me-up
  3. pick-me-ups
  4. pick-mes
  5. pick-off
  6. pick-pocket
  7. pick-pocketed
  8. pick-pocketing
  9. pick-pockets
  10. pick-purse
  11. pick-purses

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