gaffle

gaffle (someone or something)

1. To steal or seize something. Hey man, don't just gaffle my headphones—ask me if you want to use them. I heard she got arrested for gaffling a lipstick from the corner store.
2. To apprehend someone. After trying to gaffle these guys for months, we were finally able to bring them into the station tonight.
See also: gaffle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gaffle

1. tv. to steal something. Somebody gaffled my bike!
2. tv. to arrest someone. The copper gaffled Fred Monday.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gaffle (someone or something)
  • gank
  • gank (something)
  • gank something
  • a steal
  • be a steal
  • cop (something) from (someone or something)
  • cop from
  • provided (that)
  • provided that
References in periodicals archive
The most spectacular of his gaffles is the story of why and how he decided not to publish Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West.
Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters