Search results for 'steal':

steal verb (past tense stole , past participle stolen, present participle stealing) 1 tr & intr to take away (another person's property) without permission or legal right, especially secretly. 2 to obtain something by cleverness or trickery • steal a kiss. 3 to fraudulently present (another person's work, ideas, etc) as one's own. 4 intrans to go stealthily • stole down to the basement. noun, colloq 1 a bargain; something that can be easily obtained • The silk shirt was a steal at £25. 2 N Amer, especially US an act of stealing. steal a bye cricket to score a run without the batsman having touched the ball with either his bat or hand. steal a march on someone to gain some kind of advantage over them, especially in a surreptitious or underhand way. steal someone's thunder to present or use someone else's idea, plan, etc as one's own, thereby diverting attention from them and then wallow in the ensuing praise, adulation, etc. steal the show to attract the most applause, attention, publicity, admiration, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon stelan.

steal verb (past tense stole , past participle stolen, present participle stealing) 1 tr & intr to take away (another person's property) without permission or legal right, especially secretly. 2 to obtain something by cleverness or trickery • steal a kiss. 3 to fraudulently present (another person's work, ideas, etc) as one's own. 4 intrans to go stealthily • stole down to the basement. noun, colloq 1 a bargain; something that can be easily obtained • The silk shirt was a steal at £25. 2 N Amer, especially US an act of stealing. steal a bye cricket to score a run without the batsman having touched the ball with either his bat or hand. steal a march on someone to gain some kind of advantage over them, especially in a surreptitious or underhand way. steal someone's thunder to present or use someone else's idea, plan, etc as one's own, thereby diverting attention from them and then wallow in the ensuing praise, adulation, etc. steal the show to attract the most applause, attention, publicity, admiration, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon stelan.

steal verb (past tense stole , past participle stolen, present participle stealing) 1 tr & intr to take away (another person's property) without permission or legal right, especially secretly. 2 to obtain something by cleverness or trickery • steal a kiss. 3 to fraudulently present (another person's work, ideas, etc) as one's own. 4 intrans to go stealthily • stole down to the basement. noun, colloq 1 a bargain; something that can be easily obtained • The silk shirt was a steal at £25. 2 N Amer, especially US an act of stealing. steal a bye cricket to score a run without the batsman having touched the ball with either his bat or hand. steal a march on someone to gain some kind of advantage over them, especially in a surreptitious or underhand way. steal someone's thunder to present or use someone else's idea, plan, etc as one's own, thereby diverting attention from them and then wallow in the ensuing praise, adulation, etc. steal the show to attract the most applause, attention, publicity, admiration, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon stelan.