Historical British thieves' cant for the act of stealing from a till or cash box. 'Lob' was slang for a till containing money, so lob-sneaking described sneaking a theft from it. Now purely historical, encountered mainly in studies of Victorian or earlier criminal slang.
He was caught in the act of lob-sneaking at the draper's shop and hauled before the magistrate.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) from a shop's cash till.
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