Usually means: Steal, often using deception, trickery.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaffle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gaffle: Wordnik
  3. gaffle: Wiktionary
  4. gaffle: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Gaffle, gaffle: Dictionary.com
  6. Gaffle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. gaffle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Gaffle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. gaffle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. gaffle: Free Dictionary
  11. Gaffle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaffle, gaffle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gaffle)

noun:  (obsolete) A lever used to bend a crossbow.
noun:  A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).
noun:  (historical, weaponry) A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired.
verb:  To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon.
verb:  To grab or seize
verb:  To get hold of, to find.
verb:  To arrest for criminal activity.
verb:  To steal
verb:  To swindle or bully (someone)
verb:  To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble.

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