klepto

klepto

1. noun, slang A shortening of "kleptomaniac," a person who steals compulsively. Tom's a total klepto. He always pockets something whenever we're in a store.
2. adjective, slang Describing or indicating such a person. It turns out my klepto ex-girlfriend had been stealing things from my apartment for months.
3. verb, slang To steal (something) furtively or surreptitiously. He told me how he had kleptoed dozens of phones and wallets from unlocked cars around the city.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

klepto

(ˈklɛpto)
n. a kleptomaniac; one who steals small things obsessively. The cops thought Gert was a klepto until she showed them her receipts.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • garbage
  • mickey mouse
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • juice
  • juiced
  • edged
  • edging
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Too, though larger or deeper-bodied prey may provide more benefits in terms of calories, there's potential for great energy loss due to the handling time required to engulf and digest it, which exposes a feeding pike to any klepto pike in the neighborhood.
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This is the question explored by reformed kleptomaniac Steve Tasane in Klepto - Prince of Thieves.
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Klepto is a quick read, and would be a great book to recommend to teenage girls.
TASTY TREAT: The Cubbington Players (from left) Phil Khler as Klepto, Barry West as Dame Patt Isserie and Ruth West as Simple Simon in their pantomime production of The Gingerbread Man
Just as a klepto's fingers inevitably stray toward the cash register, so too does Gore persist in his fabrications.
Naturally, instant celebrity proves to be no blessing for Furlong while his eccentric subjects - among them klepto best pal, dotty grandma who has ventriloquist conversations with her Virgin Mary statue, fag-hag sister Martha Plimpton who works at the local gay strip club, sugar addict little sis, and stain-obsessed laundromat manageress girlfriend Christina Ricci - all find their lives ruined by the media attention.
Cell Phone Klepto I went for a meal with this girl I met through a dating app and it was going really well.
AUBURN -- The fourth annual "Klepto'' 5k to benefit The Major David Brodeur Memorial Foundation will kick off at 1 p.m.
Neiers talked about gang member Rachel Lee and said: "Rachel's a klepto freak.
Still, while Dusty may have lost his illgotten booty, the cat, also known locally as 'Klepto' has become such a celebrity that he's been offered a starring role in California's annual pet parade.
Whereas Yeong-gun is a classic mythomane who creates fantasies to fill her memory gaps, Il-sun is a born klepto who can't stop stealing.
In a way, I suppose, I was the klepto wanting to get caught, knowing deep down that I was wrong and needed help.