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shopgoer en · NOUN

Etymology

From shop + goer.

Meanings

1. Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
   • His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective aphrodisiac. 1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge, page 151:
   • They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists. 1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12:
   • This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale. 2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom, page 271:

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