moonlight requisition

moonlight requisition
n. a nighttime theft. (Military. See also liberate.)
It took a moonlight requisition to get the medicine we needed.
They got the spare part on a moonlight requisition.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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