pickpocket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pick·pock·et /ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt $ -ˌpɑːk-/ noun [countable] STEALsomeone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd 扒手，小偷► see thesaurus at thief
Examples from the Corpus
pickpocket• I didn't know that girl was a pickpocket.• They do it all the time, and what a pickpocket does routinely is so much more challenging.• There are a lot of pickpockets in crowded tourist areas, so look after your belongings.• Of course he and the pickpocket were different.• He had beaten the pickpocket to the door.• The gamblers were often accompanied by street performers, vendors, pickpockets, women of ill-repute and down-and-outs of every degree.pick·pock·et nounChineseSyllable
Corpus crowd pockets, people’s a who from especially things steals someone in
pickpocket
pick‧pock‧et /ˈpɪkˌpɒkət, ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt $ -ˌpɑːk-/
noun [countable]
someone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd
pick‧pock‧et /ˈpɪkˌpɒkət, ˈpɪkˌpɒkɪt $ -ˌpɑːk-/
noun [countable]someone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd