Pickpocket

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pickpocket \Pick"pock`et\, n.
     One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
     --Bentley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pickpocket
       n : a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in
           public places [syn: {cutpurse}, {dip}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PICKPOCKET. A thief; one who in a crowd or. in other places, steals from the 
  pockets or person of another without putting him in fear. This is generally 
  punished as simple larceny.