sisar

v.

to pilfer. (peninsular Spanish)

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sisar

► verbo transitivo

1 COSTURA to dart, take in

2 (hurtar) to pilfer, pinch, nick; (estafar) to cheat

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VT

1) (=robar) to thieve, pilfer

2) (=engañar) to cheat

3) (Cos) to take in

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verbo transitivo (Esp fam)

me sisaba unas pesetas en la compra — she used to diddle me out of a few pesetas from the shopping money

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= pilfer, filch, swipe.

Ex. In his work, Al pilfers fragments from a wide array of sources and glues them into collages.

Ex. Even in poems written directly out of his own experience, he is likely to use notions, phrases, and musical ideas filched from other recent poems.

Ex. A thief has swiped the solid-gold medallion given as a Nobel Prize in Physics to Ernest Lawrence.

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verbo transitivo (Esp fam)

me sisaba unas pesetas en la compra — she used to diddle me out of a few pesetas from the shopping money

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= pilfer, filch, swipe.

Ex: In his work, Al pilfers fragments from a wide array of sources and glues them into collages.

Ex: Even in poems written directly out of his own experience, he is likely to use notions, phrases, and musical ideas filched from other recent poems.

Ex: A thief has swiped the solid-gold medallion given as a Nobel Prize in Physics to Ernest Lawrence.

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sisar [A1 ]

vt

(Esp fam)

1 (robar) to swipe (colloq)

2

(estafar): me sisaba unos euros en la compra she used to diddle me out of a few euros from the shopping money

ayer me sisó 100 gramos you did me out of 100 grams yesterday, it was 100 grams short yesterday

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sisar verbo transitivo
1 (dinero) to pilfer
2 Cost to do the armhole

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sisar Esp

♦ vt

to pilfer

♦ vi

to pilfer

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sisar

v/t fam

pilfer