transitive. To steal from (a person's pocket or wallet, a place, etc.); to rifle, ransack. Also figurative. Also: to rob, despoil (a person) (now Sc…

slang. To take up (a portable object; cf. 1d) or drive away (cattle) with dishonest intentions; in wider sense, to steal; to steal something from (a…

To rob (of something). rare.

transitive. To steal from (a person). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To plunder, rob (a person). Obsolete.

intransitive. Criminals' slang. To carry out a robbery; to steal, esp. by picking pockets. Also transitive: to steal from (a person, a pocket…

transitive. To steal (a thing); to rob (a person). slang in later use.

transitive. slang. To rob; to cheat, swindle; to steal, acquire by theft. Formerly also: †(of a prostitute) to take advantage of (a client) (obsolete…

Cant. To have to do with; to steal or rob (cf. to speak to —— 8 at phrasal verbs 1). Obsolete. rare.

To rob (esp. a safe or till). Underworld slang.

transitive. ? To rob. Obsolete.

To pounce upon, come down upon with violence or unawares; to rob, to cheat; to seize upon by sudden unexpected action; to ‘steal a march’ upon.

Cant. To rob (a person or place); to steal.

slang. To steal (goods); to rob (a person). Now Australian.

transitive. Cant. To rob; to deprive of by robbery.

slang. To rob or cheat. Obsolete.

figurative. To open up (anything) so as to liberate or extract something from it; to open, penetrate, break into, begin to use. Also absol.

transitive (Underworld slang.) To rob (a person), to burgle (a building); to steal (from).