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Verb: steal (stole,stolen)  steel
  1. Take without the owner's consent
    "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation";
    - rip off [informal], rip [N. Amer, informal]
     
  2. Move stealthily
    "The ship stole away in the darkness";
    - slip
     
  3. (baseball) advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch
Noun: steal  steel
  1. An advantageous purchase
    "she got a steal at the auction";
    - bargain, buy, snip [Brit]
     
  2. A stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

Sounds like: stator, s, steal

Derived forms: stole, stealing, stolen, steals

See also: slip away

Type of: advance, ball, baseball, baseball game, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, move, pull ahead, purchase, take, win

Encyclopedia: Steal