noun

• (botany, zoology) A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
  "As a result, although corbinas commonly utilize mollusks, they are limited to the siphons, foot, or other soft parts that either extend from the shell or can be picked from it."

verb

• (transitive) To transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.
  "He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank."
• (transitive, by extension) To transfer directly.
  "Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years."
• (transitive, figurative, often with "off") To steal or skim off something, such as money, in small amounts; to embezzle.
  "In Juchipila power to the whole community of thirty thousand evaporated as the supraheavy grid buried alongside the little mountain cantina siphoned energy from the entire west-central portion of the Namerican national power net."