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cut⋅purse

[kuht-purs]
–noun
1. Older Use. a pickpocket.
2. (formerly) a person who steals by cutting purses from the belt.

Origin:
1325–75; ME cutte-purs. See cut, purse
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cut·purse   (kŭt'pûrs')   
n.  A pickpocket.
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