flimp

English

Verb

flimp (third-person singular simple present flimps, present participle flimping, simple past and past participle flimped)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; to commit petty theft.
   • 1985 October 24, Martin Banham, Plays by Tom Taylor: Still Waters Run Deep, The Contested Election, The Overland Route, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

     Not worth flimping, eh?

   • 1862, Macmillan's Magazine, page 111:

     I don't go to say that what with flimping, and with cly-faking, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary