moonlight requisition

moonlight requisition

A stealthy, inconspicuous theft committed in the middle of the night. I'm planning a midnight requisition to recover the documents from his vault that I'll need to prove my right to the inheritance. It looks like someone made a midnight requisition of my bike. I knew I shouldn't have left it out here overnight.
See also: moonlight, requisition
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

moonlight requisition

n. a nighttime theft. (see also liberate.) It took a moonlight requisition to get the medicine we needed.
See also: moonlight, requisition
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • requisition
  • requisition from
  • requisition from (someone or something)
  • blend into the woodwork
  • blend/fade into the woodwork
  • woodwork
  • fade into the woodwork
  • fade
  • sneak out
  • sneak out (of some place)
References in periodicals archive
Author of numerous books on language, Dalzell turns this time to slang used by oppressed groups in the U.S., bringing readers face to face with the "lavender menace," revealing who'd be making a "moonlight requisition," and identifying the "blue-eyed devil." In the process of defining hundreds of slang terms, the author argues that slang has an important role in promoting group solidarity among the oppressed, showing resistance to the people and institutions that oppress them, and giving group members the respect they don't find elsewhere.
Damn the man!; slang of the oppressed in America