verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Peters filched thousands of coins from the city's parking meters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I'd be grateful for anything - even some idea of the scale of the funds they've been filching.
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He filched them from my wardrobe when I kicked him out.
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He often brought her scraps he had filched from the instructors' table.
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I am sure in the dim and distant past it had been filched from the wall.
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Like the time she'd found Will Pegg's pockets full of iron nails he'd filched from Samson.
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She is there in the honesty of her perceptions, which are not secondhand, not filched from others.
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Some wag had already filched a target and pinned it on Sylvester's unknowing back.
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Where and how he managed to filch these secret texts will probably always remain a mystery.