Meanings of pick-pocket in English

Encountering him suddenly, Hal started, like a pick-pocket who runs into a policeman.

In an instant the mob flocked round us, and the supposed pick-pocket was seized.

The burglar hates to be identified with the pick-pocket.

His first was as a highly talented child pick-pocket.

The pick-pocket dropped his voice.

One individual especially, who was working away with his back turned towards me, appeared to possess all the coolness and dexterity of a London pick-pocket.

Suppose I told you they took from him his entire fortune, over two millions, as audaciously as a pick-pocket robs a man of his handkerchief?

However, Coughlan pick-pocketed his nemesis to send the blue half of Cork into hysterics.

Ander Herrera pick-pocketed possession and played the ball to Mata.

Buyers navigating crowded sheep pens with wads of cash often find their earnings nimbly pick-pocketed.

The measures have been drawn up with crimes such as ticket touting and pick-pocketing in mind.

The street car conductors complain that they can do nothing to check the depredations of the pick-pockets.

Pick-pockets are a constant threat in Kuta.

Forrest skipped through to score his fourth after Ryan Christie pick-pocketed the Livi midfield and sent him clear.

He pick-pocketed one of their sketches.

It wasn't the first time the Irish province was pick-pocketed this season but it was arguably the most gut-wrenching.