FILCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filch mean? 

• FILCH (verb)
  The verb FILCH has 1 sense:

1. make off with belongings of others

  Familiarity information: FILCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they filch    ... he / she / it filches   
Past simple: filched   
Past participle: filched   
-ing form: filching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make off with belongings of others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe

Hypernyms (to "filch" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They filch the goods

 Context examples 

But tell me, dear coz, what shall we do next, when we have driven this bastard Henry from the kingdom which he hath filched?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)