slance
English edit
Verb edit
slance (third-person singular simple present slances, present participle slancing, simple past and past participle slanced)
- (UK, dialect, transitive) To steal; to pinch.
- 1988, Bill Naughton, Spit Nolan:
- Then a knob of margarine had to be slanced out of the kitchen to grease the wheels and bearings.
References edit
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SLANCE, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 499, column 1: “To pilfer; to take pickings from meat.”