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light-fingered
adj 2
Collocations
3VERB + LIGHT-FINGERED
complained
LIGHT-FINGERED + NOUN
pilferer
ADV.
briefly
Definitions
adj
1
Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
2
Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
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adjective — having nimble fingers literally or figuratively
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There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers
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Tom complained that a light-fingered pilferer who'd briefly brushed against him at the crowded train station had carried off his wallet.
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