chaparder

Je me suis servi. Je ne t'ai jamais appris a chaparder.
I never taught you to pilfer.
Mais nous l’avons trouvée, puisque l’on a pu chaparder d’autres lignes pour l’obtenir.
But we have found it because other lines have been able to be pilfered for it.
Les dernières années de son existence tourbillonnante ont été occupées à fuir d’un lieu à l’autre, à escroquer des pigeons, à séduire des demoiselles, à leur grappiller de quoi boire et leur chaparder de l’argent.
The recent years of his whirlwind existence have been spent running from place to place, conning locals, seducing ladies, and relieving the unwitting of their drink and money.
Car ce soir, j'irai en chaparder.
Wait till tonight. I'll borrow some for you.
C’est sur la rive opposée que les magots commettent leurs plus grands délits : chaparder les olives et dévaster les cultures.
It is on opposite bank that the nest eggs make their greater offenses: to pinch olives and to devastate the cultures.
Sa biographie indique qu’il a travaillé comme peintre, infirmier, professeur et journaliste, et ces divers métiers lui ont permis de chaparder, tel une pie, des chroniques d’une Bulgarie à la fois figée et en mouvement.
His biography states that he worked as a painter, hospital attendant and teacher as well as a journalist, magpie-ing from these occupations the stories of a Bulgaria both frozen and in flux.
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