maybe because there are so many slang words for stealing-- "cop" ("Did you buy that lipstick or cop it?") was one i learned in my teens-- and is (was) used in UK with the say meaning--but more common, it seems in the UK is knick- ( recast sentence above with knick)-- and most everyone in US would understand stole or shoplifted. Five finger discount, lift (ed), and the NY favorite--"It fell off the truck"-- and to the other ways of speaking about stealing... and i am sure there are other words and phrases i have forgotten... If Sparteye deals with the criminal courts, i am sure she will have heard other terms...


my other obsession