filcher

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noun

One who filches; a thief.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounfilcher (plural filchers)

plural filchers

  1. One who filches; a thief.

    Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize

    1991, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, Sean Altman, David Yazbek (music), performed by Rockapella
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    But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife, The very plague and torment of his soul, The harbinger of battle and of strife, And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;

    1820 August, Daniel O'Rourke, “An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7, number 41, page 35

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APA

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Chicago

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