Webster's New World Similar definitions Synonyms: dip cutpurse riffle thief robber jostle dipper digger chevalier d'industrie (french) cannon mugger purse snatcher verb To pick pockets to steal. (16) Last Tuesday, police community support officers patrolled the market, keeping an eye out for thieves and pickpockets, while distributing crime prevention leaflets to stallholders and shoppers. pickpockets A thief who steals from the pockets of persons, as in crowds. (15) Not even the moon shone on the black, starless night and the woman picked her way carefully across the city, keeping a wary eye out for cutpurses and nocturnal pickpockets. (14) The piper children are expert pickpockets and thieves, they have amassed countless treasures yet rarely sell them or spend any money. (13) A 44-year-old man was pickpocketed at the cinema on Saturday, and his wallet was later found with £60 missing. Michel is like a man who knows he can cop an orgasm if. (12) However, when I got home, I realised that I either lost my wallet or it had been pickpocketed. But stealing has a specific psychosexual meaning for him, beyond fulfilling the simple need to eat. (11) I didn't know whether I had been pickpocketed or had left it in the car. (10) We must be on the look out for thieves and pickpockets, but also for anything suspicious in case of a terror attack. (9) And on screen, she could play sentimental innocents, as well as jewel thieves, cross-dressing pickpockets, and slippery vamps. (7) If you're just going to offer me a job, then why try to pickpocket me? (8) The defendant also admitted to breaching a two-year conditional discharge set by Magistrates in August after attempting to pickpocket a 78-year-old in a supermarket. (6) Many papers had to be filed about the last person who tried to pickpocket him and ended up in the hospital. (5) Keeping total eye contact on the small boy (to make sure he would not try to pickpocket him), he bent down to retrieve the apples carefully putting them back in the basket. (4) He was too clumsy, for one thing - he walked heavily, forever bumping into things, and she could not see him as a pickpocket or a highway robber. (3) Everyone is out to pickpocket you, auto drivers cheat, cabs are too costly and anything served by the roadside is a local delicacy that is a must have and cheap. (2) What floor he was born on is still unknown, but for the better part of his sixteen years of life he was a thief, a pickpocket. I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos no leaders, or followers, of party and faction no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics no pride, vanity, or affectation no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes no ranting, lewd, expensive wives no stupid, proud pedants no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.(1) Like his brother, he was also a thief, pickpocket, mugger, robber, and arsonist, etc, but he didn't like killing people. Definition of pickpocket noun a person who steals money, wallets, etc., from the pockets of people, as in crowded public places. My aunt, who had this other general opinion in reference to London, that every man she saw was a pickpocket, gave me her purse to carry for her, which had ten guineas in it and some silver. I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together. We had another long talk about my plans, when we were safely housed and as I knew she was anxious to get home, and, between fire, food, and pickpockets, could never be considered at her ease for half-an-hour in London, I urged her not to be uncomfortable on my account, but to leave me to take care of myself. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) Neither could I wonder at all this, when I saw such an interruption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets. You don't depend upon wife-beaters and pickpockets for your income.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |