gangster vs pickpocket

gangster

noun
  • A member of a criminal or street gang. 

  • A member of a professional criminal organization; a racketeer. 

verb
  • To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket. 

pickpocket

noun
  • One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand. 

verb
  • To pick pockets; to steal. 

How often have the words gangster and pickpocket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )