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Date: 1200-1300
Origin: Perhaps from Old English fylcan 'to arrange soldiers, attack, take'

filch

 verb
     
Related topics: Crime
filch [transitive] informal
SCC to steal something small or not very valuable [= pinch, nick British English]
He filched a bottle of wine from the cellar.
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