APPROPRIATE (take)
NOUNS, PERSON
1631 — IMPROPRIATOR a person who appropriates or arrogates something to himself → obs.
VERBS
1700 — COLLAR to appropriate something; to steal something → UK sl.
1712 — CABBAGE to appropriate surreptitiously; orig. said of a tailor appropriating part of the cloth given to him to make up into garments
1735 — CRIB to appropriate furtively; to steal → colloq.
1851 — SMOUCH — SMOUGE — SMOUTCH to appropriate to one’s own use or benefit; to steal, to pilfer → Amer. dial.
1861 — WHITEMAIL to appropriate or seize a thing, or apply moral pressure to a person for a good cause
1876 — MUZZLE to appropriate, to get; to appropriate food → sl., obs.
1890 — MAVERICK to appropriate abandoned or unprotected property dishonestly or illegally → Amer. dial.
1905 — SMOOCH to appropriate to one’s own use or benefit; to steal, to pilfer → Amer. dial.
1914 — CLAW to appropriate; to snatch → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1965 — GRAB ONTO to appropriate, to latch onto → Amer. dial.
1970 — GUERRILLA to appropriate; to take over → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1981 — ANNEX to take without permission; to appropriate → Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
1994 — ZOOM to appropriate or take advantage of → US sl.