(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.
Pocket
Definition:
(n.) A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
(n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
(n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
(n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
(n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
(n.) A hole containing water.
(n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
(n.) Same as Pouch.
(v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
(v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(2) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(3) This structural change opens the heme pocket and modifies the general conformation of the EF segment, thus explaining the increase in oxygen affinity and the achievement of a three-dimensional structure favoring asparagine deamidation.
(4) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(5) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(6) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
(7) A three-dimensional model of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase, based on the homologous horse liver enzyme, was used to compare the substrate binding pockets of the three isozymes (I, II, and III) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the enzyme from Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
(8) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(9) Mutants resistant to R 61837 (up to 85 times the MIC) were shown to bear some cross-resistance (up to 23 times the MIC) to the new compound, indicating that pirodavir also binds into the hydrophobic pocket beneath the canyon floor of rhinoviruses.
(10) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
(11) To develop a better model for studying GPIC immunity, conjunctival pockets were established under the abdominal skin of guinea pigs by subcutaneous implantation.
(12) A program is presented which permits use of a pocket-size programmable calculator, the HP-65, to tally phenotypes resulting from a three-point cross.
(13) The surgical modality used was the modified Widman flap operation and the pockets under scrutiny were those with an initial probing depth of 4-6 mm.
(14) This study investigates bacterial invasion of the soft tissue walls of deep pockets from cases with adult (AP) and juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(15) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
(16) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
(17) A program is developed for estimation of median effective dose (ED50 or LD50), using the hand-held programmable pocket calculator HP41CV.
(18) The tryptase sequence includes the essential residues of the catalytic triad and an aspartic acid at the base of the putative substrate binding pocket that confers P1 Arg and Lys specificity on tryptic serine proteases.
(19) These results, together with information from the amino acid sequences, infer that the native carotenoid, astaxanthin, is bound to each apoprotein within an internal hydrophobic pocket, or calyx.
(20) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.