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▪ I. ˈpocket-ˌpicking, n.
‘Picking’ of pockets: see pick v.1 9; stealing from the pockets of others. So ˈpocket-ˌpicker, a pickpocket.
1622Rowlands Good Newes & Bad N. 42 A Pocket-picker most exceeding braue (For true mens purses did maintaine the knaue). 1662Petty Taxes x. Tracts (1769) 56 Such as have abused their dextrous use of them [fingers] by pocket-picking, counterfeiting of seals and writings &c. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. xi, More..people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 199 As naturally..as the disappearance of watches in a London mob is attributed to pocket-picking.
▪ II. pocket-picking, ppl. a.
That picks pockets.
1868Geo. Eliot in Blackw. Mag. Jan. 3/2 A poor pocket-picking scoundrel, who will steal your loose pence while you are listening round the platform. |