Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to steal, to loot.

1916		R.L. Mackay diary 15 Sept. 🌐 One old rascal (Old Stevie) showed me some eight or nine watches which he had ‘souvenired’.
1921		(con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 87: A tin of Maconochie rations I [...] souvenired from the H.Q. cooks.
1930		(con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 29: ‘We both went out in the evening, souveniring’.
1932		(con. WWI) L. Mann Flesh in Armour 85: Fethers [...] souvenired the officer’s pistol, and Mick Flynn quietly ratted his pockets.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1951		Cusack & James Come in Spinner (1960) 421: ‘How on earth did you get those?’ ‘Souvenired ’em,’ said Lofty with a broad wink.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 200: ‘Souvenir’ is verbified by the Australians and doesn’t mean quite what you thought it did.
1978		J. Webb Fields of Fire (1980) 115: I s’pose it’s all right for me to souvenir his britches.
1989		R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 240: Norton immediately made a mental note to souvenir it [i.e. a football guernsey] after the shoot.
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [A] hatrack full of caps and hats he’d souvenired from different film shoots.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] You couldn’t let the crowd souvenir your costumnes, they were too damn expensive.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] He decided to souvenir the [German] helmet.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 24: [T]he circular hood ornament absent, souvenired.

2. (US) to give, to hand over; usu. as phr. souvenir me.

1979		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Short Timers (1985) 56: ‘You give me chop-chop? You souvenir me?’ The orphan grabs at the Hershey bar and jerks it out of Chili Vendor’s hand.
1984		P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book].
1985		(con. 1969–70) D. Bodey F.N.G. (1988) 91: I have an extra poncho souvenired by some guy I never knew.
1990		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 9: The Kid souvenired himself a small black stamp album.
1998		K. Anderson Night Dogs 207: ‘How about you souvenir me a little more of that cocaine’.