Usually means: Stealing from pockets without notice.
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  1. pickpocketing: Wordnik
  2. pickpocketing: Wiktionary
  3. Pickpocketing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Pickpocketing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pickpocketing: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.

Similar:
cutpurse, dip, pickpocketry, pickpocketism, pocketing, pilfering, purloinment, theft, street crime, shoplifting, more...

Opposite:
wallet dropping, wallet giving, wallet returning

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Similar:
cutpurse, dip, pickpocketry, pickpocketism, pocketing, pilfering, purloinment, theft, street crime, shoplifting, more...

Opposite:
wallet dropping, wallet giving, wallet returning



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