steaming

steaming
 n.— «It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as steaming.» —“This Mosquito makes unruly teenagers buzz off” by Sarah Lyall in Barry, Wales International Herald Tribune (Paris, France) Nov. 29, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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