Usually means: Thief who steals from pockets.
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  1. cutpurse: Merriam-Webster
  2. cutpurse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cutpurse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cutpurse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cutpurse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cutpurse, cutpurse: Wordnik
  7. cutpurse: Wiktionary
  8. cutpurse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cutpurse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cutpurse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cutpurse, cutpurse: Dictionary.com
  12. Cutpurse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cutpurse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cutpurse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cutpurse: Rhymezone
  16. Cutpurse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cutpurse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Cutpurse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. cutpurse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cutpurse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cutpurse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cutpurse: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cutpurse: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cutpurse)

▸ noun:  A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

Similar:
pickpocket, dip, cut-purse, pickpurse, pick-purse, pick-pocket, pocketer, purloiner, pickpocketer, reverse pickpocket, more...

Opposite:
purse maker, pickpocket victim, honest person

Phrases:
moll cutpurse, more...

Adjectives:
common, notorious, civil, famous, clever, valiant

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Similar:
pickpocket, dip, cut-purse, pickpurse, pick-purse, pick-pocket, pocketer, purloiner, pickpocketer, reverse pickpocket, more...

Opposite:
purse maker, pickpocket victim, honest person

Phrases:
moll cutpurse, more...

Adjectives:
common, notorious, civil, famous, clever, valiant



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