klepto
Americannoun
plural
kleptosEtymology
Origin of klepto
First recorded in 1955–60; by shortening
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t trend forecasting, or klepto flossing or tea leaf browsing.
From Washington Post
Beyond that, comic kleptos are protected by a more important reality.
From Washington Post
At some point, this parasitic predecessor lost the klepto gene and gained another that enabled it to supply energy to its host, as mitochondria do today.
From Scientific American
There was the “klepto” from Finland who stole his pocket knives.
From The New Yorker
On a rack by the entrance is Freud’s walking stick and hat, which have been encased in glass ever since the 1970s, when the hat was stolen, briefly, by a Freudian klepto.
From New York Times
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