"gnome-napping" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gnome",
        "3": "kidnapping"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of gnome + kidnapping",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of gnome + kidnapping.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gnome-nappings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "gnome-napping (countable and uncountable, plural gnome-nappings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, page 20",
          "text": "There has always been plenty of gnome-napping in Adelaide, but there were no ransom notes for our dog, and it didn't turn up in any obvious places such as on the university lawns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Mona the Vampire, \"There's No Place Like Gnome\" (season 1, episode 4b)",
          "text": "Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings. Officer Halcroft will get right on it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jeannie B. Thomas, Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender",
          "text": "The front's activities are similar to \"gnome-nappings\" in Australia that David Hult detailed in 1988 and Jan Brunvand described again in 1989.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Marcus Mennes, Gnome & Garden: A Gnovelty Kit, page 44",
          "text": "There is a clandestine international conspiracy behind these gnome-nappings, similar in scope and complexity to those organized to perform crop circle hoaxes and stage UFO sightings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 7, Julie Carpenter, “Gnome is where the heart is”, in The Express",
          "text": "In recent years the craze of “gnome- napping”. has been gathering pace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sheila Radley, Fate Worse Than Death",
          "text": "They also, in view of the fact that Inspector Tait had just rung in to report that Annabel Yardley knew nothing about any gnome-napping expeditions by her weekend guests, put another question-mark against the gnome.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Beverly Allen, For Whom the Bluebell Tolls",
          "text": "The gnome-napping continued unsolved for over a month, until one day, they were discovered in the soccer fields, lined up for a kickoff against a team of pink plastic flamingoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prank in which one steals a garden gnome and then either leaves it posed in a public place or photographs it in front of tourist locations."
      ],
      "id": "en-gnome-napping-en-noun-bEi~vDb9",
      "links": [
        [
          "prank",
          "prank"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "garden gnome",
          "garden gnome"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gnomenapping"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gnome-napping"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gnome",
        "3": "kidnapping"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of gnome + kidnapping",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of gnome + kidnapping.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gnome-nappings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "gnome-napping (countable and uncountable, plural gnome-nappings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, page 20",
          "text": "There has always been plenty of gnome-napping in Adelaide, but there were no ransom notes for our dog, and it didn't turn up in any obvious places such as on the university lawns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Mona the Vampire, \"There's No Place Like Gnome\" (season 1, episode 4b)",
          "text": "Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings. Officer Halcroft will get right on it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jeannie B. Thomas, Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender",
          "text": "The front's activities are similar to \"gnome-nappings\" in Australia that David Hult detailed in 1988 and Jan Brunvand described again in 1989.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Marcus Mennes, Gnome & Garden: A Gnovelty Kit, page 44",
          "text": "There is a clandestine international conspiracy behind these gnome-nappings, similar in scope and complexity to those organized to perform crop circle hoaxes and stage UFO sightings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 7, Julie Carpenter, “Gnome is where the heart is”, in The Express",
          "text": "In recent years the craze of “gnome- napping”. has been gathering pace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sheila Radley, Fate Worse Than Death",
          "text": "They also, in view of the fact that Inspector Tait had just rung in to report that Annabel Yardley knew nothing about any gnome-napping expeditions by her weekend guests, put another question-mark against the gnome.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Beverly Allen, For Whom the Bluebell Tolls",
          "text": "The gnome-napping continued unsolved for over a month, until one day, they were discovered in the soccer fields, lined up for a kickoff against a team of pink plastic flamingoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prank in which one steals a garden gnome and then either leaves it posed in a public place or photographs it in front of tourist locations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prank",
          "prank"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "garden gnome",
          "garden gnome"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gnomenapping"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gnome-napping"
}