shoplift
verb
- to steal merchandise from a retailer by taking it normally without paying
- to steal from a retailer by taking normally without paying
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɒplɪft/
noun
Etymology: Back-formation from shoplifter.
- A shoplifter.
“1704, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67, […] 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, […] .”
verb
Etymology: Back-formation from shoplifter.
- 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”
“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; […]”
- 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.”
“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.”