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Light-fingered

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
  2. 2
    Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting. figuratively

    "There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of light-finger form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + fingered (“having fingers”, adjective).

Etymology 2

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + fingered (“having fingers”, adjective).

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