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How to use pickpocket in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Pickpocket means one who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand. Example: “You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.”

Examples of pickpocket by meaning

verbTo pick pockets; to steal.

  • Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian

More sentences with pickpocket

  • You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.From the entry comparable
  • The pickpocket got my watch off me.From the entry get off
  • Be on your guard against pickpockets in the railway station.From the entry on one's guard
  • Being skilled pickpockets and socially invisible, they slip the propaganda into the pockets of the occupiers.2015, Jessa Crispin, “Jersey Island/Claude Cahun”, in The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats & Ex-countries, Chicago, Ill.; London…. From the entry pamphlet
  • A good pickpocket is known to his fellows as a pistol.2009, James Thomson, Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition, page 377. From the entry cannon
  • "Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for Wednesday's editions.2006 April 26, “David Copperfield tricks robbers”, in USA Today, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2010. From the entry pickpocketing
  • They were whizzers (pickpockets) but they would also take part in burglaries.1981, East End Underworld, page 146. From the entry whizzer
  • Biggest pickpocket arrests from one group, biggest rapefests in another.2022, Karen Kellock, Manual for Superior Men, page 629. From the entry rapefest
  • A tooler was the most elite of the pickpockets, a planner and plotter, a boy with brains, daring and courage.2010, Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory, volume 1, page 103. From the entry tooler
  • The vast majority of crime in the capital is petty street crime, such as pickpocketing and “grab and runs.”2010, Graeme R. Newman, Crime and Punishment around the World, page 124. From the entry pickpocketing
  • There are players picking up a hundred grand a week who are like pickpockets, stealing money from the fans.2009, Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John, Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Sue, Grabbit and Runne
  • This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers.2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob, page 40. From the entry whiz
  • Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.. From the entry brush
  • Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.1977, Robert S. Weppner, Street ethnography, page 70. From the entry cannon
  • Pickpockets took to housebreaking and housebreakers joined gangs of street thieves; cracksmen's mistresses were often toolers and shoplifters.1970, Kellow Chesney, The Anti-society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld, page 168. From the entry tooler
  • I thought about having Justine distract him while I slipped them out of his pocket, but I'm a liar, not a pickpocket.2008, Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle, Liar of Kudzu, page 148. From the entry wetnap
  • The other class of thief, socially inferior to the pickpocket, was the lush roller who followed drinking men and robbed them when they collapsed.1969, Finis Farr, Black Champion: The Life and Times of Jack Johnson, page 82. From the entry lush roller
  • Rashid gave his sister a staunch, comforting hug and deftly slipped, like a reverse pickpocket, several bills of money into the un-protesting pocket of her gown.2004, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, The Liberated Bride, page 216. From the entry reverse pickpocket
  • They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern, page 58. From the entry hook

Meaning of pickpocket

  1. noun One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
  2. verb To pick pockets; to steal.

Full definition of pickpocket

Questions about pickpocket in a sentence

How do you use pickpocket in a sentence?
Pickpocket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.”
What is a short sentence with pickpocket?
“The pickpocket got my watch off me.”
What does pickpocket mean?
Pickpocket means one who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

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