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  2. Steal - Wikipedia

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    Steal (basketball), a situation when a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball from an offensive player; Steal (curling), score/win by a team that did not throw the last rock; Steal, a 2002 action film; Steal, a Central Television game show; Steal (poker), a type of a bluff; The Steal, the British melodic hardcore punk band

  3. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The English language has borrowed many words from other cultures or languages. For examples, see Lists of English words by country or language of origin and Anglicisation. Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the original phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or

  4. Steal (poker) - Wikipedia

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    In poker, a steal is a type of a bluff, a raise during the first betting round made with an inferior hand and meant to make other players fold superior hands because of shown strength. A steal is normally either an "ante steal" or "blind steal" (depending on whether the game being played uses antes or blinds ).

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  6. Joke theft - Wikipedia

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    A comic who is known to steal jokes may be labelled with the epithet "hack" by other comics. A "hack comic" uses material that is unoriginal or which is blatantly copied from its original author. Some cases of alleged joke theft are ambiguous, due to the possibility of simultaneous and coincidental discovery.

  7. British slang - Wikipedia

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    The language of slang, in common with the English language, is changing all the time; new words and phrases are being added and some are used so frequently by so many, they almost become mainstream. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout Britain (e.g. knackered, meaning "exhausted").

  8. Kleptocracy - Wikipedia

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    Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία-kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, [1] [2] is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern ...

  9. Thou Shalt Not Steal - Wikipedia

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    Thou Shalt Not Steal is a 1896 Australian stage play by Alfred Dampier.It enabled Lily Dampier to play a dual role. [2]The play was a melodrama. [3] [4]The Mercury called it "a melodrama full of picturesqueness, incident, and humour."