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pickpockets

pickpockets is the plural 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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Phrases with pickpockets

Questions about pickpockets

What is pickpockets the plural of?
Pickpockets is the plural of pickpocket.

Words near pickpockets in the dictionary

  1. pickpocketers
  2. pickpocketing
  3. pickpocketings
  4. pickpocketism
  5. pickpocketry
  6. pickpockets
  7. pickpole
  8. pickpoles
  9. pickproof
  10. pickpurse
  11. pickpurses

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