van-dragging

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van-dragging (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A form of theft in which one person would leap onto the back of a horse-drawn vehicle laden with goods and throw them down to an accomplice.
  2. (by extension) Theft by stealing one vehicle and transferring the goods to another.

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