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Kleptomaniac

//ˌklɛptəˈmeɪniæk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who steals compulsively.

    "“A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”"

  2. 2
    someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) (from Proto-Hellenic *klépťō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klep-) + -maniac.

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