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Definition

To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.

To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.

To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.

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In Context

  • "While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt."
  • "I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife."
  • "Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe."
  • "Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup."
  • "But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children."
  • "But in "La Cenerentola," Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show."
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Also Said As

  • abscond with
  • pilfer
  • thieve
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