Usually means: Tendency to steal or pilfer.
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  1. sticky fingers: Merriam-Webster
  2. sticky fingers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sticky fingers: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sticky fingers: Wiktionary
  5. sticky fingers: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. sticky fingers: Dictionary.com
  7. Sticky Fingers (album), Sticky Fingers (band), Sticky Fingers (disambiguation), Sticky Fingers (tribute band), Sticky Fingers, Sticky fingers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. sticky fingers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sticky fingers: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sticky fingers)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An inclination to steal.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Petty thieves.

Similar:
finger, long arms, magpie, klepto, butter fingers, slipthrift, filch, smoocher, pickpocket, kleptocat, more...

Opposite:
honesty, integrity, trustworthiness

Types:
thief, pickpocket, embezzler, shoplifter, fraudster, swindler, con artist, hacker, more...

Phrases:
have sticky fingers, more...

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Similar:
finger, long arms, magpie, klepto, butter fingers, slipthrift, filch, smoocher, pickpocket, kleptocat, more...

Opposite:
honesty, integrity, trustworthiness

Types:
thief, pickpocket, embezzler, shoplifter, fraudster, swindler, con artist, hacker, more...

Phrases:
have sticky fingers, more...



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