n. A thief who preys on pedestrians. [FOOT + obsolete thieves' cant pad, highway, highwayman (from Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat, pad-, path, both from Germanic *patha-; see pent- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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