klepto
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of klepto
First recorded in 1955–60; by shortening
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
It wasn’t trend forecasting, or klepto flossing or tea leaf browsing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
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 ● Jan. 25, 2015
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 ● Aug. 29, 2014
Beyond that, comic kleptos are protected by a more important reality.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
