Sekirov Dictionary

shoplift

/ˈʃɒplɪft/

verb 2
noun 1
forms 3

verb2

•
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 — 2004
•
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. — 1938

noun1

•
(no longer used) A shoplifter.
- […] 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

forms

shoplifted · shoplifting · shoplifts

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