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 not losing things, protect your phone from pickpockets with the elegant Maison de Sabré Sling Phone Case, now on sale for 40 percent off. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 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

The feature could help someone facing a violent thief or another coercive situation.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Police told local news outlets that thieves used one of the company trucks to smash through the site’s security gate and then spent eight hours combing through the building.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of thief

Noun

Valentino Giovanni Luchin is a man in his 60s with two wildly different legacies — he is known as a talented, hardworking Italian chef and an inept bank robber.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Back in the ’90s, one year after making her film debut in Cadillac Man, Petty skyrocketed to fame after starring alongside Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in the action film about surfers who moonlight as bank robbers.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of robber

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This high-security prison is a sprawling complex that houses thousands of detainees, including notorious gangsters, terrorists and prominent white-collar offenders.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
The trailer signals a narrative grounded in moral ambiguity and raw human emotion rather than conventional gangster storytelling.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of gangster

Noun

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

Noun

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

Definition of ruffian

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