snowdrop

1. (Australia, slang, ambitransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.Examples: "MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive."; "‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them."; "It'll be like snowdropping clothes from a clothesline. We'll snowdrop a baby."Australiaambitransitiveslang