v
(informal) To perform such an act.
v
(intransitive, obsolete or archaic, rare) To steal, move stealthily.
v
(New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
v
(Polari) To pick up someone.
v
(slang, transitive) To steal.
v
(idiomatic) To touch closely, to scrape (against)
v
(Scotland, transitive, archaic) To steal.
v
(Canada and US, informal, sometimes hyphenated) To commit such an act.
v
(transitive) To abduct (a dog).
n
(obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
v
(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
v
(transitive, very rare, UK, dialectal) To snatch in advance.
n
A person who strangles someone from behind.
v
(Britain, of a person) To be killed.
v
To hurriedly and forcibly take, appropriate or seize control of.
n
The act of one who grabs; a snatching.
n
A person who grabs or grasps for something.
n
(archaic) An oppressor or extortioner.
v
(obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
v
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete, Scotland) To cheat; gull; take in.
v
(slang, military, Britain) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
v
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
v
(New York, slang, transitive) To rob somebody of something.
v
simple past tense of kill steal
v
(colloquial) To nab or steal.
n
Alternative form of landgrab [A landrush.]
n
Alternative form of landgrab [A landrush.]
n
(informal) A joke, fib or tease.
n
Alternative form of legpuller [One who teases or tells joking untruths.]
n
Alternative form of leg-pull [(informal) A joke, fib or tease.]
n
(historical slang) A thief.
v
(transitive) To take; to steal; to pilfer.
v
(military slang) To steal or use materiel without authorization.
v
(informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
n
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Use; profit; foredeal; advantage.
v
(obsolete) To grab; to nab.
v
(transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To snatch; to seize violently.
v
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
v
(slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
v
(transitive, slang, dated) To watch (a person or building) for purposes of theft.
v
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
v
(obsolete, Scotland) To seize property in this manner
v
(obsolete, Anglo-Indian, slang, transitive) To seize; to take hold of.
n
(UK, slang, archaic) A person who seeks out information of use to burglars, for example by ingratiating himself with the members of a household, and in return receives payment after the burglary is committed.
n
(obsolete) An instigator.
v
(obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
v
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
v
(obsolete) To blow the recheat.
v
Archaic spelling of reave. [(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
n
Someone who rips something.
v
(informal, intransitive) To seize, convulse or twitch, especially when sudden.
n
(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
v
(UK, dialect, transitive) To steal; to pinch.
v
(slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
v
(transitive, informal) To purloin, or obtain by devious means.
v
(transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To steal; snatch.
v
(transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
n
Synonym of snatch and run
n
(often attributively or figuratively) An unsophisticated method of committing robbery by grabbing someone's property and attempting to flee with it.
v
(by extension, slang) To overwhelm someone; to have a strong impact on someone.
n
(informal) The act of forcibly taking something back, such as a turn in speaking (by interjecting) or a hire-purchase item on which installments are overdue.
n
The act by which something is snatched.
v
(dated, transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
v
(Australia, slang, transitive, intransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint.
adj
(informal) Sticking up or tending to stick up.
v
(Australia, slang) To prank, trick, or deceive (a person), whether or not malice is intended.
n
(Britain, slang) An act designed to maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone.
v
(transitive, informal) To steal or snatch.
v
(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
v
(thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To steal completely; take away entirely.
v
(transitive, Britain, Ireland, informal) To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.
v
(transitive) To seize or snatch up.
n
A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia)
v
(colloquial) To take or win (something that others want).
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