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cat burglar

noun as in agile burglar

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A prolific cat burglar has been caught red handed after stealing anything she can get her paws on.

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“Death Prefers Blondes” follows a teenage glitteratus, Margo Manning, who moonlights as a cat burglar alongside a team of fabulous young drag queens.

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He is a cat burglar - a kleptomaniac kitty who apparently cannot be reformed.

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They are worse than the solitary crooks who occasionally slink past our homes because they are ubiquitous, invisible and more elusive than even the wiliest cat burglar.

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The colt had never really sat behind horses, preferring to steal to the front like a cat burglar and dare the authorities to run him down.

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