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gnomenapping

gnomenapping is the alternative form of gnome-napping.

Meaning of gnome-napping

Noun

gnome-napping (countable and uncountable, plural gnome-nappings)

  1. A prank in which one steals a garden gnome and then either leaves it posed in a public place or photographs it in front of tourist locations.
    • There has always been plenty of gnome-napping in Adelaide, but there were no ransom notes for our dog, and it didn't turn up in any obvious places such as on the university lawns.1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of gnomenapping

pluralgnomenappings

Questions about gnomenapping

What is gnomenapping the alternative form of?
Gnomenapping is the alternative form of gnome-napping.

Words near gnomenapping in the dictionary

  1. gnomedom
  2. gnomefish
  3. gnomefishes
  4. gnomekind
  5. gnomelike
  6. gnomenapping
  7. gnomenappings
  8. gnomeries
  9. gnomery
  10. gnomes
  11. gnomes of Zurich

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gnomenapping (page history and authors); gnome-napping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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