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Male pickpockets in the hills? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

mendips

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'the hills?' is the definition.
(hills in the south west of England)

'male pickpockets' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'men' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pickpockets' becomes 'dips' ('dip' can be a synonym of 'pickpocket').
'men'+'dips'='MENDIPS'

'in' is the link.

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(Another definition for mendips that I've seen is " Hills of Somerset".)

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