stolen goods
Burglar's ill-gotten haul
Stolen goods are items that have been taken unlawfully from their owner.
The phrase appears most often in legal and law enforcement contexts: possession of stolen goods, trafficking in stolen goods.
A fence deals in stolen goods, buying from thieves and reselling.
The singular stolen good is rare—the phrase almost always appears as a plural.
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- plunderGoods seized violently
- black marketIllicit trading system
- pawnshopStore lending against collateral
- stash houseIllicit goods storage location
ill-gotten gains · theft · swag · fence · crime · shoplifting · hot · burglary · pickpocketing · five-finger discount · larceny · pilfering · embezzlement · organized crime · asset recovery · watch · restitution · smuggling
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
- property lossproperty loss, lost property, forfeiture, confiscation, seizure
- property rightsownership, property rights, private property, real property, title
- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- theftstealing, larceny, steal, burglary, robbery
- plunderlooting, booty, pillaging, spoils, pillage