n
(archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
v
(transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
adj
Of or like an andabata, a gladiator who fought blindfolded; hence, characterized by flailing, random, misdirected, and by implication frantic effort to little or no effect.
adj
That serves to counter shoplifting.
n
(UK, obsolete) A thief who steals from kitchens and cellars.
n
(law) An theft where the thieves are carrying weapons.
adv
(idiomatic, archaic) plentifully and at another's expense.
n
Initialism of breaking and entering; burglary in general. [(law) The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by force.]
n
(informal) A criminal who commits further crimes while released on bail.
n
(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
n
(Caribbean, Jamaica) Crime; something illicit; a scam.
n
One who robs or steals from a bank.
n
The act of stealing money from a bank.
v
(Singapore, informal, Singlish) To inform on someone behind his or her back.
n
(figuratively) One who uses harsh or predatory means to compete.
n
(archaic) A quarrelsome person, one who fights, a bully.
n
(informal) The violent taking of something, such as in a robbery.
n
(informal) An employee of such a firm, especially a former employee of the firm's clients.
n
(economics) The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle.
n
(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
n
A type of extortion racket, typically involving sending a letter demanding that the victim leave a sum of money in an agreed location to avert a threatened kidnap, arson, murder, etc.
n
A person who carries on the Black Hand extortion racket.
n
(Britain criminal slang) An armed robbery.
n
(informal) A thief or robber, one who blags.
v
(Britain, slang) To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.
n
(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
v
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
n
(slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
n
One, especially a politician, who seeks or receives boodle; a political grafter.
v
(transitive, rare) To steal a book.
v
(transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
v
Pronunciation spelling of borrowing. [(slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.]
v
(slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.
n
An instance of breaking and entering.
n
The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
n
(informal, nonstandard) One who breaks in; a robber or home invader.
n
(law) The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by force.
n
Alternative form of broken windows theory [(criminology) A criminological theory stating that signs of urban decay (e.g. broken windows, graffiti) signal that an area is not monitored, encouraging more destructive criminal behavior.]
n
(criminology) A criminological theory stating that signs of urban decay (e.g. broken windows, graffiti) signal that an area is not monitored, encouraging more destructive criminal behavior.
n
(US politics) A political fundraiser.
n
A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft
n
(rare, nonstandard) One who is burgled.
v
Rare spelling of burglarize. [(transitive, intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To commit burglary.]
v
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To commit burglary.
n
(rare) Synonym of burglar
adj
Of, or related to a burglary.
n
(law) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
v
(chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland) To commit burglary.
n
(slang) The stealing of offcuts of material by a tailor making a garment with a customer's fabric.
n
(US, slang, dated) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
n
A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
n
(slang) A person who examines a building to determine whether it is worth burgling.
n
A particularly stealthy burglar, especially one who gains undetected entry through the use of agility.
n
(obsolete) An unlawful bargain; trade in which money is extorted as discount.
v
(Britain, informal) To steal.
v
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal.
n
Someone who cheats at dice.
v
(navy slang) To acquire without officially requisitioning; to pilfer or barter for surplus items.
v
(transitive, informal) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
v
(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
v
(intransitive, slang) to leave school early
v
(transitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To successfully engage the company of someone for a period of time.
v
(idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
n
(slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.
n
Alternative spelling of cop-out [(slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.]
n
One who carries out corporate raids.
n
(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
n
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
n
(slang, obsolete) A thief, forger, or other criminal.
n
(historical slang) A type of thief who used a ‘curb’ or hooked pole to steal things through open windows.
n
An unregistered car dealer who sells vehicles from parking lots and other public locations while masquerading as a private seller; a person who sells stolen, rebuilt, or odometer-tampered vehicles.
n
Alternative spelling of cutpurse [A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.]
n
A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.
v
(chiefly India) To commit armed robbery.
n
(chiefly India, Myanmar) Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits.
n
(uncountable) The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
n
(obsolete) A robbing or embezzlement.
n
One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
n
(colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
v
(slang, transitive) To betray someone by informing on them.
n
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one who steals scraps of food.
v
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
v
(slang, with on) To inform, to call the authorities (on).
v
(slang) To inform on (a person); to turn someone in.
n
The illicit placing of items in retail stores as a form of countercultural performance art.
n
(slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
n
one who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles
n
(obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
n
Someone who breaks a promise or violates a treaty.
v
(idiomatic) To buy or sell products labeled as "Made in China."
n
receiving and buying of stolen goods
n
(obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
n
One who filches; a thief.
n
Alternative spelling of five-finger discount [(slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) Theft or pilferage, typically of a small item; shoplifting.]
n
(slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) Theft or pilferage, typically of a small item; shoplifting.
n
(criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers.
v
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; to commit petty theft.
v
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
n
(historical slang) A thief or pickpocket.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To steal away, rob, deprive.
v
simple past tense of forsteal
v
(thieves' cant, obsolete) To steal from someone's pocket.
v
(colloquial) To attack someone or something as a group.
v
(transitive, slang) To steal.
n
Alternative form of jailbreaker [One who breaks out of jail.]
n
(obsolete) A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows.
n
An instance of gatecrashing a party, event, etc.
n
(slang) A person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation, either by stealth or by deception.
v
(US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
v
(transitive, informal) To steal, to grab.
n
(informal) A person who steals.
n
(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.
n
(archaic) The practice of theft by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property.
n
(uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
n
(US, criminal law) The larceny of property whose value is greater than an amount set by law to distinguish it from petty larceny.
n
Alternative spelling of graverobber [One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.]
v
(transitive) To steal (items) from a person's grave.
n
One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.
v
To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
n
(law) A list, resembling a blacklist, for less serious offences.
v
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.
n
Used metaphorically to indicate some act of stealing
n
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
n
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
n
(rare) A thief or burglar.
n
(obsolete) Robbing on a highway
n
(US, dated) A swindler, especially a corrupt politician.
n
(slang) An assassin for hire; a hitman.
n
(Philippines) One who carries out a robbery at gunpoint.
n
(law, criminology) An individual who commits a home invasion.
n
One who breaks into a house, typically to burgle it
n
The act of breaking into a house, typically to burgle it.
v
(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
v
(slang, regional) To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
n
The burglary of a dwelling while it is occupied.
n
Alternative form of housebreaker [A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.]
n
Alternative form of housebreaker [A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.]
n
A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
n
(historical) An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler.
v
Obsolete form of embezzle. [(law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.]
n
Alternative form of infangthief [(historical, law) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves captured within their estates, sometimes restricted to the lord's tenants or men and sometimes limited to those caught in flagrante delicto.]
n
A receiver of stolen goods.
v
(transitive) To rob or mug (a person).
n
A criminal who robs those who are drunk or asleep
n
(criminology, slang) A crime where a suspect observes a customer at a bank or high-end store and then follows the customer after they leave the establishment in order to steal their money or valuables.
v
(transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
n
Alternative form of ladrone [A robber; a pirate; a rascal or rogue.]
n
A robber; a pirate; a rascal or rogue.
n
Robbery; banditry; theft.
v
(UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
n
One who commits larceny, a thief.
n
One who commits larceny, a thief.
n
(law, countable) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.
n
(obsolete) Theft or robbery.
n
(obsolete) A robber or brigand; one who plunders.
n
One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.
n
Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
n
(informal) A skimming device fitted to an ATM, used to collect personal banking information by criminals.
n
(slang, UK) An individual who steals things or borrows them without asking.
n
One who loots, who steals during a general disturbance such as a riot or natural disaster.
n
(India, chiefly in the plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
n
The act of stealing during a general disturbance.
v
(UK, slang, obsolete) To be transported as a felon.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
n
(archaic or Australia) A conman.
v
(transitive, obsolete, slang) To steal.
n
(law, UK, obsolete) The act or fact, especially of theft.
n
A stolen article found on the person of or near the thief
n
(UK, law, formal) The criminal offence of bilking.
v
(idiomatic, archaic) To rob Peter to pay Paul; that is, to borrow money from one person to pay another.
n
Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
v
(by extension) To seize without a legal claim.
v
Alternative form of mitch [(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.]
v
Obsolete form of mitch. [(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.]
n
A thief; especially a secret or petty thief.
n
(obsolete) Theft; cheating.
v
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
v
(transitive, chiefly Britain) To steal or filch.
n
(slang, euphemistic) Theft or receipt of stolen goods.
v
(US, slang) To shoplift.
v
(transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
n
A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
n
(New Zealand) An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.
v
(informal, transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
n
(US politics) An associate or assistant of Ralph Nader and of organizations led by him, who participates in Nader's legal, political, and social activitism.
v
(transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
adj
(UK, slang) Captured (by police); arrested.
v
(archaic, slang, transitive) To filch, steal, pilfer.
v
(online gaming) To unfairly loot the corpse of a fallen enemy before other members of the party can divvy the spoils.
v
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
v
(Britain, slang) To steal.
n
Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
n
(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
n
A thief who operates in a panel house.
n
A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.
v
Rare spelling of filibuster. [To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.]
n
(slang, criminology) An individual who secretly resides in another's home without authorization.
v
Alternative spelling of pickpocket [To pick pockets; to steal.]
n
The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
n
One who steals purses, or money from purses.
v
(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.
adv
By pilfering or stealing; thievingly.
n
(obsolete) A piller; a plunderer.
n
The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
n
(slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.
v
(by extension, transitive, intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
n
The act of something being illicitly taken or purloined.
n
(slang, criminology) A criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.
n
Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
v
(slang, dated) To filch or steal.
n
(obsolete, slang) stolen goods
v
(obsolete, slang) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.
n
(obsolete) A prowler; a thief.
n
(crime) A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property.
n
The act of purloining; theft
v
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
n
(by extension) A rapacious person who preys on the defenseless.
n
(archaic) A violent, greedy person.
n
One who is subjected to paying rack rent.
v
to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.
n
One who makes, or engages in, a racket.
n
One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
n
The act of carrying out a raid.
v
(slang) To make a lot of money.
v
Alternative spelling of ramraid [To break into premises, for the purpose of robbery, by ramming a heavy vehicle through a door, window or wall.]
n
Alternative form of ramraider [A thief who operates by ramraiding.]
v
Alternative spelling of ramraid [To break into premises, for the purpose of robbery, by ramming a heavy vehicle through a door, window or wall.]
n
Alternative form of ramraider [A thief who operates by ramraiding.]
n
(slang) An act of violent robbery.
n
A thief who operates by ramraiding.
n
Breaking into premises, for the purpose of robbery, by ramming a heavy vehicle through a window or wall.
n
A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
v
(transitive) To plunder.
v
(obsolete) To carry away by force.
v
(usually with “on” or “out”) To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in.
n
A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
n
One who reaves, a border raider or cattle thief
n
A person who accepts stolen goods.
n
An establishment that accepts stolen goods.
n
(obsolete) One who buys stolen cloth and alters its appearance so that it will not be recognised.
n
A criminal who fraudulently changes the serial numbers of automobiles.
n
One who reverse-pickpockets, that is, who puts something in people's pockets without their knowledge
n
Alternative form of reif (robbery). [(Scotland, obsolete) Robbery.]
n
One who rifles; a robber.
n
The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
n
A person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang.
n
(slang) One who charges excessively high prices.
n
(historical) In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.
n
Alternative spelling of robber baron [(historical) In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.]
adj
(rare) Befitting a robber.
n
(law) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
n
(slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”)
v
(transitive, slang) to arrest
n
(by extension) Any brigand or armed robber.
n
Alternative spelling of safecracker [One who breaks into safes.]
n
A criminal who breaks into safes using explosives.
n
A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.
n
The act of breaking into a safe.
n
One who breaks into safes.
v
(Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
v
(transitive) To defraud or embezzle.
n
The phenomenon of stealing the scene.
n
(obsolete) barter; exchange; trade
v
To sneak into a venue during the intermission without paying.
v
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
v
(figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.
n
(derogatory) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
v
(transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
n
(Australia) A shoplifter.
v
Alternative spelling of shoplift [(transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.]
n
One who breaks into a shop with unlawful intent.
n
The act of breaking into a shop with unlawful intent.
v
To make use of a purchased item and then return it to where it was bought within the refund period so as to get one's money back.
n
A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
n
(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
adj
(informal, rare) Of, or related to shoplifting.
v
Alternative spelling of shortchange [To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.]
n
(US, prison slang) A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To steal or skim off money in small amounts; to embezzle.
n
Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
n
(crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
n
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
n
(by extension, often attributively) An act of theft, appropriation, or other form of gaining advantage at another's expense that is done quickly and audaciously.
n
Alternative form of smash and grab [(often attributively) A robbery where a window of a shop or other premises is smashed and items are grabbed as quickly as possible.]
n
Someone who borrows trivial items without returning them; a petty thief.
v
(transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
n
Someone who engages in money laundering by making many transactions, each of which is for an amount below the threshold that requires the bank to report the transaction.
n
a money laundering technique involving the break-up of large sums into smaller amounts, in order to fly under the regulatory radar.
v
To steal, to pickpocket.
n
(obsolete) A thief who operates by stealth.
v
(transitive) To come forward and snitch on someone.
n
(historical) A vindictive or rampant bloody pillage of cities in the Low Countries by Spanish regular or mutinous troops between the years 1572–1579, during the Dutch Revolt.
n
One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
n
(US) A politician who serves only for a share of the spoils.
n
(obsolete) One who spoliates.
n
The crime of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury.
v
(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) To break a window in order to commit robbery.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To gain an advantage unobserved.
v
(intransitive) To leave secretively.
v
(slang) To assume another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime; to commit identity theft.
v
To dominate a performance through charisma, humour or powerful acting
v
Obsolete form of steal. [(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.]
n
(chiefly in combination) One who steals; a thief.
n
(UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus, train, etc.; see Steaming (crime).
n
(idiomatic) An inclination to steal.
v
To steal, to pilfer; to make off with (something).
v
simple past tense of steal someone's thunder
v
simple past tense of steal the show
v
(slang) To borrow money at low to no interest for the purpose of making a profit by depositing it for higher interest.
n
A person who makes a profit by stoozing.
n
(finance) suspicious transaction report.
n
(US, slang) A worthless bid; a bid for a contract which the bidder is unable or unwilling to fulfill.
n
A crime, for example pickpocketing, that happens in a public place, such as on the street
n
(historical) A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
n
(business, retail) theft by employees at the cash register, as for example by giving away merchandise to friends and family
n
The act of stealing property.
n
(law) The crime of failing to take reasonable steps to find the owner of property that has been found.
n
(historical) The crime of protecting a thief from the law in exchange for stolen goods.
n
(law, obsolete) The receiving of a person's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.
n
Obsolete spelling of thief [One who carries out a theft.]
n
One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
n
(now chiefly historical) Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
n
(rare) The fact or practice of thieving; theft.
n
The act of theft, the act of stealing.
v
(dialect) To steal, to thieve.
n
(obsolete) A criminal who surreptitiously robs the tills of shops, typically while accomplices distract the attention of the clerks.
n
(informal, idiomatic) Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
n
A criminal who defrauds a fruit machine and steals the money inside.
v
(Britain regional, slang) To steal (especially a car).
adj
Of an object, usually a car: having been stolen.
v
(transitive) To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer.
n
Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
n
Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
n
Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
n
(by extension) Theft by stealing one vehicle and transferring the goods to another.
n
(uncommon) A fighter armed with a voulge, particularly in a French military context.
adj
(of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors.
v
(figuratively) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
n
Alternative spelling of wheeler-dealer [(informal) A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.]
v
(transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
n
(cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
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