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語源

From pick +‎ pocket.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/

名詞

pickpocket (plural pickpockets)

1. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

   Coordinate term: putpocket

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 52:

     Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.

   • 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet‎, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8:

     For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:pickpocket

派生語

動詞

pickpocket (third-person singular simple present pickpockets, present participle pickpocketing, simple past and past participle pickpocketed)

1. (transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.
   • 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian‎:

     Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.

派生語

• reverse-pickpocket