What's the difference between bung and pickpocket?

Bung


Definition:

  • (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
  • (3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
  • (4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
  • (5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
  • (6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
  • (8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
  • (9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
  • (10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
  • (11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
  • (12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
  • (13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
  • (14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
  • (15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
  • (16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
  • (17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
  • (18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
  • (19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
  • (20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.

Pickpocket


Definition:

  • (n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've been mistaken for a parent, a pickpocket, and even, God forbid, an SUV owner, and I've always been able to brush it off.
  • (2) Moments later it was Ronaldo's run and cross that caused Gaël Clichy problems as Di Maria looked to pickpocket him, as the pattern of Real dominance continued.
  • (3) Documents published by the Hillsborough independent panel relating to the Sun's April 1989 "The Truth" front page splash, which falsely alleged that drunken Liverpool fans had urinated on police and pickpocketed the dead: 1.
  • (4) Apart from the sweat and steam they bring into the chapel, the sheer number of visitors has been criticised for giving the space the feel of a busy train station, complete with pickpockets.
  • (5) We need this type of framework to stop the government of the day pickpocketing the foreign aid budget at their will,” acting Greens leader Adam Bandt said.
  • (6) One sub-category that showed a 6% rise was personal thefts, such as pickpocketing and mobile phone snatches.
  • (7) Excluding the foreigner-specific crimes, Germans committed three-quarters of offences recorded in 2015, but crimes by non-Germans were up 12.8%, including document forgery, pickpocketing and home burglaries, De Maizière said.
  • (8) After one of his interceptions – featuring the pickpocketing of Kolarov – Sissoko charged 50 yards only to spare Joe Hart by shooting too early.
  • (9) MPs on the all-parliamentary party group on Gypsies, Travellers and Roma sounded the alarm about provocative language as a prominent Tory council leader suggested some Roma are planning to come to the UK to "pickpocket and aggressively beg" following the end of labour market controls on the two eastern European countries.
  • (10) Lee Cattermole dallied in possession and was pickpocketed by Álvaro Negredo.
  • (11) Romanians and Bulgarians, on the other hand, are today's "wretched of the earth", described by Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun as variably corrupt, as rapists and as pickpockets.
  • (12) Police in Hamburg said some aspects of the attackers’ methods were akin to those of skilled pickpockets operating in the city.
  • (13) The main true opposition political parties stood united behind the young people who instigated and led the revolution, and petty crimes such as harassment and pickpocketing – which had been at epidemic levels in Cairo – all but disappeared throughout the revolution.
  • (14) An initial internal police report released to the Kölner Stadt Anzeiger said that among an estimated 100 men questioned by police over their behaviour during the evening there were not only trickster pickpockets typical to the area – so-called ‘Äntanzer’ or ‘waltzers’ – who dance with their victims, unbalance them and use the opportunity to rob them, but also newly arrived refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (15) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
  • (16) "The teachers support us," they continue, speaking into a bicycle-powered public address system, which just about rises above an announcement to watch out for pickpockets.
  • (17) We even get pickpockets in here, just like at a street market," he added.
  • (18) "But I think the fear that everybody faces is those that come to Britain and either fail to find jobs and therefore fall back on our welfare system, or those who deliberately come here to pickpocket and aggressively beg.
  • (19) However, the annual crime figures show a 2% rise in some types of property crime, especially in unattended personal property, such as garden sheds, pickpocketing and thefts of commercial materials, particularly metal.
  • (20) Bresson in films like Pickpocket or A Man Escaped watches souls striving for redemption; Hitchcock in Psycho or Vertigo explores the incurably neurotic mind.

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