(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):
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(intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
: "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
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(Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
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