pick pocket

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pick somebody's pocket

to steal money from someone's pocket or bag You'd think you'd feel something if someone tried to pick your pocket.

See also: pick, pocket

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Of course the whole purpose is defeated if you lift your short or blouse in public as the potential pick pocket gets a good view of where your wallet is located and resort to his handy work to recover it from there. Various Travel Accessories for You by Simon Brady / Travel, recreation and leisure community ISLAMABAD, 01 June, 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- National Highways & Motorway Police on Monday arrested two professional pick pockets red-handedly who were involved in many cases of pick pocketing the passengers of buses by offering intoxicating food items to them. NH&MP arrest two pick-pockets by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan) In Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Fagin used children to pick pockets. `OLIVER TWIST' GANG TARGETS DRINKERS; Crooks use young children for ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)			phone up phony as a three-dollar bill photo op phrase physical Physician, heal thyself pick pick a fight pick a lock pick and choose pick and mix pick apart pick at pick away pick brain pick brains pick from pick holes in pick of pick off pick on pick on your own size pick out pick out of pick over pick pocket pick to pieces pick up pick up after pick up marbles pick up on pick up speed pick up steam pick up the ball and run pick up the bill pick up the pace pick up the pieces pick up the slack pick up the tab pick up the threads of pick way pick way through picked over picking pickle picnic picture picture as picture in picture is worth a thousand words picture of			pick off pick off pick off pick off Pick Off Mirror Pick Off Mirror Cover Pick Off Mirror Mechanism pick on pick on pick on pick on pick on pick on somebody your own size pick on your own size pick one’s pockets Pick operating system pick out pick out pick out pick out pick out pick out of pick out of a hat pick out of a hat pick over pick over pick over pick over pick over pick over or through pick pocket pick pockets pick pockets pick pockets pick pockets pick point pick someone or something out pick something to pieces Pick System pick take the ball and run Pick the Best Runningback Available pick through pick through pick through pick through Pick Ticket Management System Pick to Display Pick to Order pick to pieces pick to pieces pick to pieces pick to pieces pick to pieces pick up pick up pick up pick up pick up pick up pick up Pick Up & Delivery

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