Usually means: Taking something without permission unlawfully.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word steal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. steal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. steal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. steal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. steal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. steal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Steal, steal: Wordnik
  7. steal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. steal: Wiktionary
  9. steal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. steal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. steal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. steal: Dictionary.com
  13. steal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. steal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Steal (basketball), Steal (film), Steal (game show), Steal (poker), Steal, The Steal (film), The Steal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Steal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. steal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. steal: Rhymezone
  19. steal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. steal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Steal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. steal: Free Dictionary
  23. steal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. steal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. steal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. steal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. STEAL: Acronym Finder
  3. steal: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. steal, steal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Steal: Urban Dictionary
  3. S.T.E.A.L: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Steal: Dan's Poker
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See stealable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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