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- verb Present participle of
pickpocket .
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Examples
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Marcus Felson, a criminologist at Texas State University who has spent decades studying low-level crime, calls pickpocketing a "lost art."
Slate Magazine Joe Keohane 2011
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I seem to recall pickpocketing basically being a quicktime event -- you don't pickpocket random people, just those with information for you.
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Opposition parties rage at 'pickpocketing' Chancellor
WN.com - Articles related to UK government says economic recovery in infancy 2010
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"This is legalized pickpocketing, meaning that you are trying to legitimize something and take something from people's pockets, and this is wrong," he said.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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The crime rate in Algeria is high and includes robberies, car-jackings and petty crime such as pickpocketing and purse snatching, the latter particularly on public transport.
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These are largely petty crimes such as pickpocketing and in real numbers less than one percent of visitors fall prey to such elements. "
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"pickpocketing" the Time's reporting for his book.
Gawker 2009
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Many voters associate the presence of Gypsies in a neighborhood with petty crime such as burglaries and pickpocketing.
Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012
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Spain was quite excellent, though, except for the unfortunate pickpocketing incident.
We're baack frankwu 2009
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This may or may not be related to the Walmart pickpocketing of my husband but we think it is all related.
GHibbs commented on the word pickpocketing
My adjectival use: 'They caught the pickpocketing students.'
August 23, 2011