trousering

Verb

trouser (third-person singular simple present trousers, present participle trousering, simple past and past participle trousered)

1. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.
2. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.
   • Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
3. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket.
   • Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn’s Britain, page 348

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