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(n)
The act of stealing property.
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The action of theft.
One who pilfers.
One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
(crime) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
(crime) A person who robs.
A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft.
The act of stealing.
Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
unauthorized entry to private property
One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
A rough or violent youth.
Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English. [A member of a criminal or street gang.]
A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
(criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.
(slang, law enforcement) A perpetrator.
(informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
(slang, derogatory) A thief; a rascal or scoundrel.
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
(often diminutively) A cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
(chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
One who takes something.
(derogatory) An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.
(derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
A mob; a disorderly crowd.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
(uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
The act of arranging.
(countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:
An adult male human.
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
(crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
(music, slang) A powerfully energetic and/or very good song, especially in hip-hop and dance music.
(architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
One who purloins.
One who snatches, or steals by snatching.
One who loots, who steals during a general disturbance such as a riot or natural disaster.
One who rustles; a cattle (or other livestock) thief.
One who commits larceny, a thief.
One who steals compulsively.
One who plunders or pillages.
One who filches; a thief.
(historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.
One who carries out cybertheft.
(chiefly in combination) One who steals; a thief.
(now chiefly historical) Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
Alternative form of thief-taker. [(now chiefly historical) Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.]
Someone who steals horses.
One who commits wage theft.
One who robs or steals from a bank.
A person who receives.
A person who steals sheep.
A steelworker.
One who engages in carjacking; one who steals an occupied automobile.
One who or that which takes or draws in.
Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
One who ransacks.
One who picks locks; a thief.
One who smuggles things.
One who has been betrayed.
One who drags a body of water in search of something that is submerged.
One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
One who commits treason.
Someone who hijacks.
(Northeastern US, Florida, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
One who borrows.
One who trespasses; an interloper.
A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.
A usurper.
One who kidnaps a baby.
A defaulter or embezzler.
Someone who intrudes.
Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
One who breaks into safes.
One who carries out schemes; a fraudster.