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shop steal en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From shop + steal.

Meanings

1. (Australia) To shoplift.
   • For example, shop stealing cases of the kind already described are regularly dealt with at the scene and, afterwards, at a police station without any involvement of parents or guardians. 1983, John A. Seymour, Juvenile Justice in South Australia, page 15:
   • If you detect a person shop stealing, report it to the police.
   • I have also in the past had court orders taken out on our known shop stealing customers to prevent them from entering my store. 2001 April 25, Doggy, “Bag Search Refusal”, in aus.legal^([https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/aus.legal/5DP9odlSr10[1-25]]) (Usenet):

Forms

Deriveds

shop stealer