"whizzer" meaning in English

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        "A set of horizontal blades used to separate mineral particles."
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        "A device used in milling to dry wheat, etc. by rapid spinning."
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          "text": "In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]",
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          "text": "They were whizzers (pickpockets) but they would also take part in burglaries.",
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          "text": "He knew the whizzers – those innocent-looking men who crowd into omnibuses and rob the poor of their bitterly won earnings […]",
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        "(UK, slang) A pickpocket."
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        "Synonym of whizgig (“spinning toy”)"
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