gnome-napping
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A prank in which one steals a garden gnome and then either leaves it posed in a public place or photographs it in front of tourist locations.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There has always been plenty of gnome-napping in Adelaide, but there were no ransom notes for our dog, and it didn't turn up in any obvious places such as on the university lawns."
- "Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings. Officer Halcroft will get right on it."
- "The front's activities are similar to "gnome-nappings" in Australia that David Hult detailed in 1988 and Jan Brunvand described again in 1989."
- "There is a clandestine international conspiracy behind these gnome-nappings, similar in scope and complexity to those organized to perform crop circle hoaxes and stage UFO sightings."
- "In recent years the craze of “gnome- napping”. has been gathering pace."
- "They also, in view of the fact that Inspector Tait had just rung in to report that Annabel Yardley knew nothing about any gnome-napping expeditions by her weekend guests, put another question-mark against the gnome."