steal🔊

To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

(of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

(figurative) To acquire at a low price.

To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.

To move silently or secretly.

To convey (something) clandestinely.

To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

(baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.

To dispossess

(hyperbole) To borrow for a short moment.

(humorous) take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing

(act of stealing, literally) The act of stealing.

(extreme bargain) (figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.

(change of ball possession in sports) (ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.

(stolen base in baseball) (baseball) A stolen base.

(type of scoring in curling) (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.

(type of data writing in databases) (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.