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sticky-finger

verb

Etymology

Compare sticky fingers, sticky-fingered.

Definitions

  1. To steal, to pilfer

    To steal, to pilfer; to make off with (something).

    • […] "picking up" a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.
    • 'This one will be called the Crimson Star of Sri Lanka, and it will be placed on display where every Lankan may visit it but where our politicians and thieves will not be able to sticky-finger it away again.'

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sticky, finger. To touch or finger something which is sticky, or with fingers that are sticky.

    • Or rather she invited her over, along with her friends. They arrived in a jam of buggies, toddlers waddling around sticky-fingering the walls.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA