light-fingered

Definitions

1. Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
2. Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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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