One. When you say pickpocket, no one says as two words, they say it as one.
"Pick a Pocket or Two" is one of the more famous numbers from the musical "Oliver". The time signature is 4/4.
You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two was created in 1960.
Pick up is two words although, depending on how it is used, it is sometimes written with a hyphen between the words like so: pick-up.
Fagin.Fagin was the leader of the pack of boys, and assigned the Artful Dodger to teach Oliver how to pick pockets.
Fagin.Fagin was the leader of the pack of boys, and assigned the Artful Dodger to teach Oliver how to pick pockets.
You have in your pocket a nickel and a quarter. (One of them is not a quarter- The other one is.) :)
The word 'toothpick' will do. The two words are tooth and pick.
It is two words and 2 very short words for all I know
It is two words. Writing it as one is acceptable in the UK and is referred to as a "Britishism." But in American grammar, it is always two separate words.
'You gotta pick a pocket or two' from 'Oliver'. 'Smugglers' Song' which is a setting of Rudyard Kipling's poem. 'Gilgarra Mountain' Irish traditional. (There are lots of versions of this, but the one I know doesn't swear.)
That my friend is the beauty of English.
"Pocket Monsters," the Japanese name of Pokemon, explains what it is all about in two words. A good, snarky one is "Formulaic Kids Monster-Toy Show."