stealth
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
stealth
- (uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
- (archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
- 1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:
- [The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).
- 1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:
- French: furtivité, discrétion
- German: Heimlichkeit
- Portuguese: furtividade
- Russian: хи́трость
- Spanish: sigilo
stealth (stealths, present participle stealthing; past and past participle stealthed)
- (military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
- (slang) To have sexual intercourse without a condom through deception (for example, removing the condom mid-act).
- 2017, “Stealthing”: Feminists open Pandora’s box of sexual assault double standards ↗:
- “Stealthing” is an immoral behaviour practiced by both men and women, but only punishes men.
- 2017, “Stealthing”: Feminists open Pandora’s box of sexual assault double standards ↗:
stealth
- (LGBT) Of a transgender person, hiding their transgender status from society after transition. C en
- go stealth; be stealth; live stealth
- He has been/lived stealth for 10 years.
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