shoplifting noun2 •The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.[…]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting. — 1724 •A theft from a shop during trading hours.In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts. — 2000 formsshopliftings
