slance

English

Verb

slance (third-person singular simple present slances, present participle slancing, simple past and past participle slanced)

1. (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

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SLANCE, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 499, column 1: “To pilfer; to take pickings from meat.”

Anagrams

• Clasen, Lances, N scale, ancles, censal, cleans, lances