Pickpocketing

/pˈɪkpəkɪtɪŋ/

/pˈɪkpəkᵻɾɪŋ/

Pickpocketing

the action of stealing from a person's pocket or bag

Examples

1. He's already done the pickpocketing work for the pickpocket, unknowingly.

2. He was a victim of pickpocketing.

3. The school started with the basics, and kids were taught criminal life skills like pickpocketing and the art of misdirection.

4. But then I realized Sherlock Holmes had this wonderful esoteric skill set of pickpocketing, lock picking, which then led kind of more into that.