Shoplift

//ˈʃɒplɪft// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shoplifter. obsolete

    "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, […] ."

Verb
  1. 1
    To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise. transitive

    "She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons"

  2. 2
    steal in a store wordnet
  3. 3
    To steal from shops / stores during trading hours. intransitive

    "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."

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Example

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"Let's go shoplift from the supermarket."

Etymology

Back-formation from shoplifter.

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