flimp

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verb

To steal; to commit petty theft.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbflimp (third-person singular simple present flimps, present participle flimping, simple past and past participle flimped)

present singular third person flimps · participle present flimping · participle past flimped · past flimped

  1. UKobsoletethieves' cantTo steal; to commit petty theft.

    Not worth flimping, eh?

    1985 October 24, Martin Banham, Plays by Tom Taylor: Still Waters Run Deep, The Contested Election, The Overland Route, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166
    1 more example

    I don't go to say that what with flimping, and with cly-faking, […]

    1862, Macmillan's Magazine, page 111
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