sticky-finger
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sticky-finger
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verb sticky-fingers · sticky-fingering · sticky-fingered · sticky finger
- To steal, to pilfer; to make off with (something). […] "picking up" a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sticky, finger. To touch or finger something which is sticky, or with fingers that are sticky. ... drove into town and bought a takeaway at a dingy working-class cafe. Then I drove up Signal Hill and in the stark, early morning light, the bay still covered in mist, watched the sun rise, sticky-fingering sausages and chips in contentment.
Talk about this word "sticky-finger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sticky-finger. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sticky-finger. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sticky-finger "sticky-finger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sticky-finger.Cite this
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