Word.ws English Dictionary

thieves in law

thieves in law is the plural of thief in law.

Meaning of thief in law

Noun

thief in law (plural thieves in law)

  1. A criminal who is respected, has authority and a high ranking status within the criminal underworld in the old Soviet Union, Russia and the republics that formed the former Soviet Union.

Questions about thieves in law

What is thieves in law the plural of?
Thieves in law is the plural of thief in law.

Words near thieves in law in the dictionary

  1. thiever
  2. thieveries
  3. thievers
  4. thievery
  5. thieves
  6. thieves in law
  7. thieves in the night
  8. thieves out
  9. thieves' kitchen
  10. thieves' Latin
  11. thieves' vinegar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thieves in law (page history and authors); thief in law (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thieves in law.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thieves_in_law. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.