English
reverse pickpocket
From reverse + pickpocket.
A compound of reverse + pickpocket
Latin versō ‘to turn’
Latin reversō ‘to turn back’
Latin reversus ‘turned back’
Anglo-Norman revers
Middle English revers ‘reversed’
English reverse
Today it means
verb One who reverse-pickpockets, that is, who puts something in people's pockets without their knowledge.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “reverse pickpocket”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / reverse pickpocket