"area sneak" meaning in English

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      "form": "area sneaks",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "The practice of breaking into the lower floors of a house via its area to commit theft."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, obsolete) The practice of breaking into the lower floors of a house via its area to commit theft."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 52",
          "text": "Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thief who steals in this way."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, historical) A thief who steals in this way."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "area sneak"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "area sneaks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of breaking into the lower floors of a house via its area to commit theft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "area",
          "area"
        ],
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, obsolete) The practice of breaking into the lower floors of a house via its area to commit theft."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 52",
          "text": "Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A thief who steals in this way."
      ],
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        "(now rare, historical) A thief who steals in this way."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "historical"
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  "word": "area sneak"
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