lob-crawling

English

Noun

lob-crawling (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Theft from a shop's cash till by crawling stealthily towards it while the shop owner is not looking.
    Hypernym: lob-sneaking
    • 1896, Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago
      Ginger Stagg was pinched for lob-crawling.
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