Shoplift
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈʃɒplɪft/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shoplift is a noun meaning (transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
Meaning
(transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
- (obsolete) A shoplifter.
Example Sentences
In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
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.
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, […] .
Word Forms
- shoplifts
- shop-lift
- shoplifting
- shoplifted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rob, steal, fly, shop-bouncer, lift, oyster.
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