Usually means: Thief who stealthily steals wallets.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word pickpocket:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pickpocket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pickpocket: Merriam-Webster
  3. pickpocket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pickpocket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pickpocket: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pickpocket: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pickpocket, pickpocket: Wordnik
  8. pickpocket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pickpocket: Wiktionary
  10. pickpocket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pickpocket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pickpocket: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pickpocket: Dictionary.com
  14. pickpocket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pickpocket (disambiguation), Pickpocket (film), Pickpocket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pickpocket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pickpocket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pickpocket: Rhymezone
  19. Pickpocket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pickpocket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pickpocket: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pickpocket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pickpocket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pickpocket: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. pickpocket: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pickpocket: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pickpocket: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pickpocketing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
verb:  (transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.

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