Usually means: Steal something small or trivial.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. filch: Merriam-Webster
  2. filch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. filch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. filch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Filch, filch: Wordnik
  7. filch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. filch: Wiktionary
  9. filch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. filch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. filch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Filch, filch: Dictionary.com
  13. filch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. filch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Filch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Filch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. filch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. filch: Rhymezone
  19. filch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. filch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Filch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Filch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. filch: FreeDictionary.org
  24. filch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. filch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. filch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filch: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filch: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. filch, filch, filch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. filch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
noun:  Something which has been filched or stolen.
noun:  An act of filching; larceny, theft.
noun:  (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
noun:  (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

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