The word "pickpocket" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person who steals from another person's pocket or pouch without them knowing. Example sentence: We were warned to be careful of pickpockets in the crowded market.
This pickpocket, invisible to us, lifted the flap of my closed messenger bag and took two items: my iPad and my old iPod.
Mr Alhazmi told reporters in Saudi Arabia that his passport had been stolen by a pickpocket when he visited Egypt three years ago.Another Saudi named by the FBI as one of the hijackers was Abdulazziz Alomari, who the Saudis say is, in fact, an electrical engineer who had his passport and other papers stolen while a student in Denver in 1996.
To be known as Titus Twist, he is an apprentice to a coffin-maker and survives against all odds in an urban jungle akin to the vast slums of Nairobi, Kenya's capital.How would Dickens's Artful Dodger, the pickpocket friend of Oliver/Titus, handle the venality of Kenya's modern politicians, the hypocrisy of its churchmen or the sanctimony of foreign charity-dispensing NGOs?
A trick where a pickpocket removed not only wallet, but also braces, was made wonderful by the indifference of everyone standing by; and Mr Routh's journey as registered "livestock" through the post from Sheepwash in Devon to Fleet Street, accompanied, as required, by a postal official, was deeply enhanced by the official's polite silence all the way.
Their first project was the shocking (for the time) circus tale The Unholy Three (1925), with Chaney as a transvestite ventriloquist who teams with a dwarf (Harry Earles), a strongman (Victor McLaglen), and a pickpocket (Mae Busch) to go on a crime spree that culminates in murder.
The second phone was stolen by a pickpocket".
Given, in her five-year career, she's already gone from a young Margaret Thatcher in the television drama The Long Walk To Finchley to a Buzzcocks-obsessed punk in the Sam Taylor-Wood short, Love You More, you can bet transforming into an ageing Parisian pickpocket is not beyond her.
Sitting ruefully in a cafe after he has reported the event to the police, he suddenly decides to become a copycat pickpocket, and discreetly fires cappuccino froth through a straw over someone on a neighbouring table.
Andersson occasionally spikes his glum vignettes with broader social comedy: a barber's revenge on a racist customer, a businessman falling victim to a pickpocket, a priceless sight gag involving a hobbling OAP and an animatronic dog.
Why, though, spoil a new Hollywood franchise for the sake of plot details? Why not resurrect Bill Sikes, the murderous thug in the book (who accidentally hanged himself while trying to flee the police) and Fagin, the overseer of the pickpocket gang (hanged in prison), have them move in together and construct a hilarious sitcom about their odd-couple life?
I've been mistaken for a parent, a pickpocket, and even, God forbid, an S.U.V. owner, and I've always been able to brush it off.
