shoplift
Noun
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Noun
shoplift (plural shoplifts)
- (obsolete) A shoplifter.
- 1704, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67 ↗,
- […] and indeed it seems a Hardſhip in our Laws, that a poor Shoplift ſhou′d be hang′d for breaking in and pilfering a few Goods, […] .
- 1704, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67 ↗,
shoplift (shoplifts, present participle shoplifting; past and past participle shoplifted)
- (transitive) To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
- 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker,
- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
- 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker,
- (intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
- 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!, The Rotarian, page 52 ↗,
- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
- 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22 ↗,
- Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
- 2002 November 25, The New Yorker,
- In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
- 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!, The Rotarian, page 52 ↗,
- shop steal (Australia)
- French: voler à l’étalage
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