abluchsen

ab- +‎ luchsen. The latter via German Low German, from Middle Low German lūken (“to pull, to pluck”), which is related to Locke (“curl; originally tuft of hair”). The -s- may already have been infixed in Low German, but only in Standard German was the word secondarily related to Luchs (“lynx”), a supposedly cunning animal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈapˌlʊksən/

abluchsen (third-person singular simple present luchst ab, past tense luchste ab, past participle abgeluchst, auxiliary haben)

1. (informal) to obtain through slyness or quickness; to wangle

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