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Shoplifting

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business. uncountable

    "[…]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting."

  2. 2
    the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store wordnet
  3. 3
    A theft from a shop during trading hours. countable

    "In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shoplift form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

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