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▸ verb:  (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
▸ verb:  (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
▸ verb:  (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
▸ verb:  To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
▸ verb:  (transitive, 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.
▸ verb:  (sports, transitive) To dispossess
▸ verb:  (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
▸ verb:  (informal, transitive, humorous) take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
▸ noun:  The act of stealing.
▸ noun:  (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
▸ noun:  (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
▸ noun:  (baseball) A stolen base.
▸ noun:  (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
▸ noun:  (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

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