Verb

(burgl)

(chiefly, British, NZ) to commit burglary.

:* {{quote-book

, year=1892 , year_published=2011 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , chapter=The Beryl Coronet citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night. }}

(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.

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, year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}

Verb

(en verb)

To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.

* 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker ,

She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons

To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.

* 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!'', ''The Rotarian , page 52,

Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted , a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.

* 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community'', '' , 22,

Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc''., ''etc .

* 2002 November 25, The New Yorker ,

In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift .