Meaning of light-fingered | Babel Free

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.”

CEFR level