shoplift en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈʃɒplɪft/
Etymology
From shop + lift (“to steal”), after shoplifting, shoplifter, and shoplift (noun).
Meanings
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(transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; […]
2015 April 19, Joaquin Sapien, “"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet”, in Salon:She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker:
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(intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22, Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
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 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52:In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
2002 November 25, The New Yorker:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shoplifts | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| shoplifted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| shoplifted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| shoplifting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| shop-lift | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
steal · shoplifting · droplifting · shoplifter
Synonyms
Translations (32)
sv snatta (transitive: to steal something) · pl kraść w sklepie (intransitive: to steal) · pl ukraść w sklepie (intransitive: to steal) · pl kraść w sklepie (transitive: to steal something) · hu lop (intransitive: to steal) · cmn 店鋪盜竊 /店铺盗窃 (intransitive: to steal) · es ladronear (intransitive: to steal) · ja 万引きする (transitive: to steal something) · es furtar (transitive: to steal something) · cmn 商店偷竊 /商店偷窃 (transitive: to steal something) · cmn 入店行竊 /入店行窃 (intransitive: to steal) · cmn 商店行竊 /商店行窃 (transitive: to steal something) · fr voler à l’étalage (intransitive: to steal) · de stehlen (transitive: to steal something) · es percollar (transitive: to steal something) · de klauen (transitive: to steal something) · fi näpistää (intransitive: to steal) · es hurtar (transitive: to steal something) · cmn 店鋪盜竊 /店铺盗窃 (transitive: to steal something) · cmn 商店偷竊 /商店偷窃 (intransitive: to steal) · pl ukraść w sklepie (transitive: to steal something) · sv snatta (intransitive: to steal) · de Ladendiebstahl begehen (intransitive: to steal) · fr voler à l’étalage (transitive: to steal something) · es latrocinar (intransitive: to steal) · cmn 入店行竊 /入店行窃 (transitive: to steal something) · es shacar (transitive: to steal something) · hu ellop (transitive: to steal something) · ja 万引きする (intransitive: to steal) · es ratear (transitive: to steal something) · cmn 商店行竊 /商店行窃 (intransitive: to steal) · fi näpistää (transitive: to steal something)