Thesaurus results for PICKPOCKET

pickpocket

noun

Definition of pickpocket

as in thief

a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses

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Recent Examples of pickpocket Speaking of losing things, keep your phone and cards safe from pickpockets with this chic crossbody iPhone case. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2026 Think of it like a team of pickpockets, one of which walks up to ask you for directions while the other swipes your wallet. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 10 July 2026 Said purse needs to be roomy enough to fit all of my travel essentials, but also secure enough to keep my stuff safe from pickpockets. — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 The film stars John Turturro as an old-school pickpocket who finds himself in a dangerous race against time through city streets. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pickpocket

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Noun

That filtering suggests the thieves want compact files that may contain credentials or financial records.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
More than 400,000 KitKat bars, some 12 tons of chocolate, had vanished while being transported from a Nestlé factory in central Italy to its destination in Poland, after thieves made off with the truck.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of thief

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The robbers then snatched various items from display cases in the space and escaped out the window in a mere eight minutes.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 22 July 2026
Authorities surmised that the robbers most likely broke the diamond down into smaller pieces and sold it on the black market.

— Moises Mendez II, InStyle, 22 July 2026

Definition of robber

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Also in his orbit are a consortium of crooks, including his cousin Freddie, a hip junkie, and Pepper, a taciturn hoodlum who was friends with Ray’s dad, Big Mike, a legendary thief.

— Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026
In the past decade, the leadership of the Kinahan organization has become rich and cosmopolitan, and their life styles have started to resemble those of international businessmen more than of street hoodlums.

— Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of hoodlum

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Interestingly, that cigar-smoking biker ruffian was not a character in the DC Comics title of a few years back.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 June 2026
The series has lent a cinematic gangster attraction to the Peaky Blinders, yet the term itself was not one gang — as depicted in the show — but a generic expression from the late 19th century for the ‘street ruffians’ of Birmingham, born out of the city’s ring of poverty.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026

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