Definition of "sticky fingers" []

• Informal A tendency to steal. (noun-plural)

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• "The pimply little fart was stuffing his face with candied figs when Sulla walked into the tablinum, poking his dirty sticky fingers through the rolls of books slowly accumulating in the pigeonholed walls."