gas meter bandit
gas meter bandit noun: a small-time thief.
Noun
gas meter bandit (plural gas meter bandits)
- A small-time thief.
- We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose. Bloody gas-meter bandits, […]2000, Gilda O'Neill, My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London
- At the lowest end of the scale are petty criminals, shoplifters, sneak thieves, joyriders, muggers (or 'street robbers', as they are now called) and gas-meter bandits. Up a step are burglars, car thieves, fraudsters and drug dealers.2011, Razor Smith, A Rusty Gun
Forms of gas meter bandit
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Questions about gas meter bandit
- What does gas meter bandit mean?
- Gas meter bandit means a small-time thief.
- What part of speech is gas meter bandit?
- Gas meter bandit is a noun.
- What is the plural of gas meter bandit?
- The plural of gas meter bandit is gas meter bandits.
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