Some brave passengers caught the pickpocket and turned him over to the police.
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Pickpocket
Synonyms for "pickpocket" (25 found)
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102 translations across 54 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- xhepist noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Arabic
2 entries- نشال noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- نَشَّال noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Armenian
1 entries- գրպանահատ noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- cibgir noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- cibəgirən noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Bulgarian
1 entries- джебчия noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Catalan
2 entries- carterista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- escurabutxaques noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 三隻手 /三只手 noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- 扒手 noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- 扒竊 /扒窃 verb (to steal)
- 掏腰包 verb (to steal)
Czech
1 entries- kapsář noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Danish
1 entries- lommetyv noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Dutch
2 entries- gauwdief noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- zakkenroller noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Esperanto
2 entries- poŝoŝtelisto noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- poŝoŝteli verb (to steal)
Estonian
1 entries- taskuvaras noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Finnish
4 entries- taskuvaras noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- tehdä taskuvarkaus verb (to steal)
- varastaa taskuista verb (to steal)
- varastaa taskusta verb (to steal)
French
2 entries- pickpocket noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- voleur à la tire noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Galician
1 entries- carteirista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯიბგირი noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
German
2 entries- Taschendieb noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- Taschendiebin noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Greek
1 entries- πορτοφολάς noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Hebrew
1 entries- כייס noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Hungarian
2 entries- zsebmetsző noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- zsebtolvaj noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Icelandic
1 entries- vasaþjófur noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Indonesian
2 entries- copet noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- pencopet noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Irish
2 entries- peasghadaí noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- piocaire póca noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Italian
3 entries- borsaiolo noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- borseggiatore noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- borseggiare verb (to steal)
Japanese
2 entries- 掏摸 noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- 掏る verb (to steal)
Javanese
1 entries- copèt noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Khmer
1 entries- ចោរលុកហោប៉ោ noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Korean
1 entries- 소매치기 noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Ladino
1 entries- yankesidji noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Lao
1 entries- ຄົນລ່ວງກະເປົາ noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Latin
2 entries- manticulātor noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- sacculārius noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Macedonian
1 entries- џе́пчија noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Malay
1 entries- penyeluk saku noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Mongolian
1 entries- халаасны хулгайч noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Māori
1 entries- ringa kamakama noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Norman
1 entries- filou noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- lommetjuv noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- lommetyv noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lommetjuv noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Polish
1 entries- kieszonkowiec noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Portuguese
4 entries- batedor de carteira noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- carteirista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- punguista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- bater carteira verb (to steal)
Romanian
2 entries- hoț de buzunare noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- pungaș noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Russian
3 entries- карма́нник noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- карма́нный вор noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- щипа́ч noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- džeparoš noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- џепарош noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Slovene
2 entries- žepar noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- žeparka noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Spanish
4 entries- bolsista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- carterista noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- chorizo noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- punga noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Swahili
1 entries- mchopozi noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Swedish
1 entries- ficktjuv noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Tagalog
2 entries- mandurukot noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- mandukot verb (to steal)
Telugu
2 entries- కత్తెరదొంగ noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- జేబుదొంగ noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Thai
3 entries- นักล้วงกระเป๋า noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- นักแซ้ง noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- มือกาว noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Turkish
4 entries- dızcı noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- kapkaççı noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- yankesici noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- dızlamak verb (to steal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кишенько́вий зло́дій noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kẻ móc túi noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
- móc túi verb (to steal)
Yoruba
1 entries- jáwójáwó noun (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Rumor says that she is a pickpocket.
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The pickpocket disappeared into the crowd.
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I caught a pickpocket dead to rights when he stole my money.
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