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Definition: Pickpocket |
PickpocketNoun1. A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pickpocket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed in harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her pocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's envy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through these evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel. If she picks others' pockets, she will incur the displeasure of a companion by her coarse behavior. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pickpocketing is a crime that is a form of larceny which involves the stealing of money and valuables off the person of a victim without them noticing. Generally a pickpocketer is a poor person who is in desperate need of money.The crime requires considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection
The crime used to be punished by death, but the public hangings (ironically) were considered prime targets for pickpockets.
Famous fictional pickpockets: The Artful Dodger, Fagin.
It is also a skill used by magicians, where an item is taken from a person without their knowledge or returned to them without their knowledge.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pickpocketing."
Synonyms: PickpocketSynonyms: cutpurse (n), dip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches. |
Thief | Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pickpocket |
| English words defined with "pickpocket": Chevalier d'industrie ♦ Gonoph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pickpocket": ANABAPTIST ♦ BUTTOCK AND TWANG, BUZMAN ♦ DOWN BUTTOCK AND SHAM FILE ♦ FOYST ♦ Pun and Pickpocket ♦ RUM DIVER ♦ TYBURN BLOSSOM ♦ We Left Our Country for Our Country's Good. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pickpocket" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (pickpocket). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pickpocket (1959) The Pickpocket (1913) Le Pickpocket mystifié (1911) The Arrest of a Pickpocket (1896) | |
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Travel | Bulgaria | Pickpocket and purse snatching attacks on the street or in public buses and trams are frequent occurrences, as is theft from automobiles, where thieves smash windows to remove valuables left in sight. (references) |
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| "Pickpocket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Pickpocket" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (common) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "pickpocket": amateur-pickpocket-sort-of-manner. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pickpocket | 54 |
pickpocket proof wallet | 12 |
learn pickpocket | 6 |
handbag pickpocket | 3 |
morrowind pickpocket | 3 |
papas pickpocket | 2 |
pickpocket sex | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pickpocket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhepist (lurcher), vjedhës (burglar, cat burglar, cracksman, hooker, larcenous, lurcher, peculator, pilferer, prig, robber, sneak, thief), hajdut xhepash. (various references) | |
Arabic | نشال (light fingered, pick, predator), سراق الجيوب, خفيف اليد (light fingered). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | джебчия (dip, diver, prig). (various references) | |
Chinese | 掱 . (various references) | |
Czech | kapsář, kapesní zlodìj. (various references) | |
Farsi | جیب بر (Bung, Cutpurse, Dip). (various references) | |
Finnish | taskuvaras. (various references) | |
French | pickpocket. (various references) | |
German | Taschendieb (dip). (various references) | |
Greek | πορτοφολάς, λωποδύτησ (pilferer, thief), λαθροχείρ (light fingered). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משמוט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsebtolvaj, zsebmetsző. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pencopet, pencecak, ayaran. (various references) | |
Italian | borseggiatore, borsaiuolo, borsaiolo (Cutpurse, jostler). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掏摸 , 巾着切り . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すり (printing), き"ちゃくきり. (various references) | |
Manx | giarreyder sporran, gaddee sporran. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickpocketpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | punguista, gatuno (black list, lifter, light-fingered, lurcher, pilferer, prig, prowler, shark, sharp, sharper, thief, thievish), batedor de carteira. (various references) | |
Romanian | pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), hoţ de buzunare (dipper). (various references) | |
Russian | карманный вор, карманник (hustler, light fingered). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | džeparoš (diver). (various references) | |
Spanish | ratero (filcher, petty thief, pilferer, sneak thief). (various references) | |
Swedish | ficktjuv. (various references) | |
Turkish | yankesici (bagsnatcher, Cutpurse, dip, lifter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кішеньковий злодій. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ móc túi (cutpurse, filcher). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pickpocket": pickpockets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pickpocket" (pronounced pi"kpÄ'kut) |
| 4 | -Ä' k u t | skyrocket. |
| 3 | -k u t | aftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-k-k-o-p-p-t" | |
-3 letters: cockpit, coppice, ectopic, petcock, topkick. | |
-4 letters: copeck, kopeck, koppie, pectic, peptic, picket, pocket, poetic, potpie. | |
-5 letters: kopek, optic, picot, pipet, topic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-k-k-o-p-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pickpockets. | |
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