Rob and Burglarize and Why Only Cops and Lawyers Should Care

 

I got rapped on the knuckles recently when I mentioned in a column that "rob" can be used to mean "burglarize." So I had to do a whole column about why I was right in the first place, darn it. Here's the whole column, but if you want the CliffsNotes version: Cops, lawyers and journalists should reserve "rob" for face-to-face confrontations. But the dictionary allows the rest of us to use "rob" to say that someone sneaked into our house while we were away and took something.

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