purse snatching
41mugging — Synonyms and related words: aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, armed robbery, asportation, assailing, assailment, assault, assault and robbery, attack, banditry, bank robbery, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg,… …
42robbery — Synonyms and related words: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary, burgling, caper, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial,… …
43stickup — Synonyms and related words: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, extortion, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, mugging, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing …
44theft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. larceny, stealing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. robbery, racket, thievery, larceny, stealing, swindling, swindle, cheating, defrauding, rapacity, fraud, piracy, burglary, pillage, pilfering, plunder,… …
45mugging — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. holdup, assault, robbery, purse snatching, *stick up …
46robbery — noun 1) they were arrested for the robbery Syn: burglary, theft, thievery, stealing, breaking and entering, housebreaking, larceny, shoplifting, purse snatching; embezzlement, fraud; holdup, break in, raid; informal mugging, stickup, heist …
47holdup — n 1.U.S. Informal. robbery, purse snatching, Inf. mugging, U.S. Sl. stickup, Sl. hustle, Sl. heist, Sl. jumping, Sl. rolling; highway robbery, banditry, brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, Obs. latrociny. 2. delay, hold, detention,… …
48pilfering — n 1. petty thievery, theft, filching, pilferage, Sl. swiping, St. hustling, Sl. copping, Psychol. kleptomania; peculation, embezzlement, Law. defalcation, misappropriation; shoplifting, palming, Sl. boosting; smuggling, bootlegging; purse… …
49robbery — n 1. burglary, theft, Sl. heist, break in; Inf. holdup, Sl. stickup, Sl. hustle, Inf. mugging, Sl. jumping, Sl. rolling. 2. thievery, pilferage, pilfering, Sl. swiping, Sl. hustling, Sl. copping; peculation, embezzlement, misappropriation; purse… …
50stealing — n 1. robbery, theft, thievery, pilferage, pilfering, filching, Sl. swiping, Sl. hustling, Sl. copping; peculation, embezzlement, Law. defalcation, misappropriation; shoplifting, palming, Sl. boosting; Psychol. kleptomania; smuggling, bootlegging; …
