shoplift
noun/ˈʃɒplɪft/
Etymology
Back-formation from shoplifter.
Definitions
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, […] .
To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding…
To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
- 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.
- In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
The neighborhood
- synonymshop steal
- neighbordroplifting
- neighborshoplifter
- neighborshoplifting
- neighborsteal
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA