thieve out

English

Verb

thieve out (third-person singular simple present thieves out, present participle thieving out, simple past and past participle thieved out)

1. to walk out of a place stealthily
   • 1922 Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354-355)

     But Kezia thieved out at the back.