A pickpocket.

One who foists, in senses of the verb. A pickpocket.

A cheat, a rogue; a pick-pocket.

A person who steals from or picks pockets (see pick, v.1 11c). Also figurative and in extended use.

A pick-pocket.

A pick-pocket; see also quot. 1608.

A pickpocket.

A pickpocket.

a pick-pocket.

A pick-pocket. Also, file-cloy, file-lifter.

a pick-pocket.

figurative. spec. (See quots.) Obsolete.

a housebreaker (perhaps obsolete); a shoplifter; a pickpocket.

= pickpocket, n. i. Cf. knuck, n. 1. Obsolete.

Thieves' slang. A pick-pocket.

A pickpocket.

pickpocket.

(a) a midwife; (b) a thief; spec. a pickpocket.

slang. A thief, a pickpocket. Cf. knuckle, n. 2c, knuckler, n. 1 ? Obsolete.

a pickpocket.

A pickpocket.

slang. A sharper's decoy; a swindler; a pickpocket. Obsolete.

Criminals' slang. A pickpocket. Now rare.

A pickpocket.

A person who wires (in various senses of the verb); (now) esp. a person whose job involves electrical wiring.

Thieves' slang. A pickpocket; also pocket-picking. (Cf. dip, v. 9b.)

a female pickpocket.

A pickpocket. (See quot. 1862.)

A thief, a pickpocket. Cf. hook, v. 6, hooker, n.1 1. slang.

slang. (See quots.)

figurative. A pickpocket; the member of a pair or team of pickpockets who actually picks pockets; = wire, n.1 19.

a thief who steals by cutting victims' pockets.

One who dips, in various senses; spec. Thieves' slang. A pickpocket. (Farmer 1891.)

a thief who steals purses, a pickpocket.

A pickpocket.

Originally and chiefly Criminals' slang. A pickpocket; = fingersmith n. (b) at compounds 2a. Also in plural in same sense. Now rare.

The practice of picking pockets (chiefly in on the whizz); a pickpocket. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

A pickpocket. slang.

a pickpocket.

a pickpocket.

= whizz-boy n.

Criminals' slang. A pickpocket or pickpocket's accomplice. Now rare.