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 pass unnoticed.

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) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking 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.