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lob-crawling

noun

lob-crawling

noun
1

UK, Obsolete, Slang Theft from a shop's cash till by crawling stealthily towards it while the shop owner is not looking.

  • Ginger Stagg was pinched for lob-crawling.1896, Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago:

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