shopdropping
English
Etymology
shop + dropping, modelled on shoplifting.
Noun
shopdropping (uncountable)
- The practice of covertly placing objects on display in a shop
- 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage”, in New York Times[1]:
- Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.