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A pickpocket is a thief who steals from people's pockets, bags, or coats, usually in a crowd — a station, a market, a festival. The hands are quick and light; you may not feel a thing until later. The word is pick (here: to take with the fingers, to steal) plus pocket. It can also be a verb: to pickpocket someone. It is a street-crime word, not a bank-robber word, and not a , who breaks into a house. Tourist signs love it because crowds make the work easy. Though actually, the “pocket” is a picture more than a rule: a bag held close to the body is just as much the target.
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pickpocketnoun/ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/
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One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
- Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.
- For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
pickpocketverb/ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/
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To pick pockets; to steal.
- Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。