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• v  make off with belongings of others

• He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models.
• In a righteously separate chapter on these bad actors, he reads an indictment against the yellow jackets that terrorize the summer terrace, filch from jam jars and deliver .
• It teaches Jim that he may -- must -- filch food from the dying and take shoes from the dead.

• pilfer
• cabbage
• purloin
• pinch
• abstract
• snarf
• swipe
• hook
• sneak
• nobble
• lift

News & Articles

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• Meet the film noir bandit
  A wannabe thief tried to filch a stack of cash from a Staten Island ATM with a stolen credit card - but all he got was this grainy, cinematic snapshot from a surveillance camera.
  June 16, 2013 - New York Daily News

Quotes

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• David Yates in MTV.com
  I've also got a lovely moment between Umbridge and Filch after the fireworks,Yates said, "where her hair is on fire and Filch tries to extinguish it. It's very 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles.' "