filch

[US]/fɪltʃ/
[UK]/fɪltʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. steal (especially small or inexpensive items)

Example Sentences

they filched milk off morning doorsteps.

filched an ashtray from the restaurant;

Who’s filched my pencil?

Jack filched a pen from his friend’s pocket.

He filched a piece of chalk from the teacher’s desk.

Oliver filched a packet of cigarettes from a well-dressed passenger.

A temporal filcher is 6 feet tall with a baglike body from which protrudes a twisted horn, a thick neck, and a bulbous head.

Real-world Examples

" We're up on the fifth floor, " he whispered, watching filch moving away from them, a corridor ahead.

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

How the devil did they filch a wax candle?

Source: Eugénie Grandet

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.

Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

She used the filched formula to set up her own company in China with backing from a local partner.

Source: Economist Business

At length a large number of runaways were assembled; stolen mules, and corn gathered from the fields, and bacon filched from smoke-houses, had been conveyed into the woods.

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

I'll smack myself upside the head with the heel of my palm, then grab my legal pad and write something like p. 91: Sandy Hunter filches a buck from Shirley's stash in the dispatch office.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

His uncle was an old dog who had filched his jewels; Eugenie had no place in his heart nor in his thoughts, though she did have a place in his accounts as a creditor for the sum of six thousand francs.

Source: Eugénie Grandet

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