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cleptomaniac

cleptomaniac is the alternative spelling of kleptomaniac.

Meaning of kleptomaniac

Noun

kleptomaniac (plural kleptomaniacs)

  1. One who steals compulsively.
    • “A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't...1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI and XII

Forms of cleptomaniac

pluralcleptomaniacs

Questions about cleptomaniac

What is cleptomaniac the alternative spelling of?
Cleptomaniac is the alternative spelling of kleptomaniac.

Words near cleptomaniac in the dictionary

  1. cleptobiotic
  2. cleptocracies
  3. cleptocracy
  4. cleptohematophagy
  5. cleptomania
  6. cleptomaniac
  7. cleptomaniacs
  8. cleptoparasite
  9. cleptoparasites
  10. cleptoparasitic
  11. cleptoparasitically

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