单词 | pickpocketing |
释义 | pickpocketingn. The picking of pockets. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun] pocket-picking1662 palmistry1711 pickpocketing1742 filing-lay1743 pickpocketry1756 buzzing1819 fogle drawing1823 fogle hunting1823 pickpocketism1830 cly-faking1862 dipping1882 prat-digging1908 whizz1925 whizzing1925 1742 Select Trials Old-Bailey (new ed.) III. 251 He said, he always disdain'd, and thought it below him to commit petty Thefts, such as Pick-pocketing. 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 176 Going upon the knuckle is going a thieving, pickpocketing, &c. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xlii. 133 A pick-pocketing case, your worship. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 4/1 Pickpocketing is merely another form of gambling. 1927 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 1 94 A boy..is brought into the clinic from the juvenile court where a charge of pickpocketing in the subways has been justly preferred against him. 1997 Independent 19 Feb. ii. 5/1 He sold dodgy goods, did a spell in boob for pickpocketing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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