pickpocket

1. 1.

   a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

   Synonymscutpursedip

   Broaderthief

Other forms of pickpocket

plural

pickpockets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pickpocket

What does pickpocket mean?

pickpocket means "a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places".

How many syllables are in pickpocket?

pickpocket has 3 syllables: pick-poc-ket. The stress falls on "pick". In IPA it is /ˈpɪkˌpɑkət/.

What is another word for pickpocket?

Close synonyms include cutpurse, dip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pickpocket a common word?

pickpocket is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pickpocket?

1 word rhymes with pickpocket. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.