shoplift

See also: shop-lift

English

Alternative forms

• shop-lift

Etymology

Back-formation from shoplifter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒplɪft/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

shoplift (plural shoplifts)

1. (obsolete) 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

shoplift (third-person singular simple present shoplifts, present participle shoplifting, simple past and past participle shoplifted)

1. (transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
   • 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker:

     She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons

   • 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^[1]:

     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; […]

2. (intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
   • 1938 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52:

     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.

   • 2002 November 25, The New Yorker:

     In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.

Synonyms

• shop steal (Australia)

Related terms

• droplifting
• shoplifter
• shoplifting

Translations

transitive: to steal something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商店行竊 / 商店行窃 (shāngdiàn xíngqiè), 入店行竊 / 入店行窃 (rùdiàn xíngqiè), 店鋪盜竊 / 店铺盗窃 (diànpù dàoqiè), 商店偷竊 / 商店偷窃 (shāngdiàn tōuqiè)

• Finnish: näpistää (fi)
• French: voler à l’étalage (fr)
• German: klauen (de), stehlen (de)
• Hungarian: ellop (hu)
• Japanese: 万引きする (ja) (manbiki suru)
• Polish: kraść w sklepie impf, ukraść w sklepie pf
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hurtar (es), ratear (es), shacar (Argentina), furtar (es) (disused)
• Swedish: snatta (sv)

intransitive: to steal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商店行竊 / 商店行窃 (shāngdiàn xíngqiè), 入店行竊 / 入店行窃 (rùdiàn xíngqiè), 店鋪盜竊 / 店铺盗窃 (diànpù dàoqiè), 商店偷竊 / 商店偷窃 (shāngdiàn tōuqiè)

• Finnish: näpistää (fi)
• French: voler à l’étalage (fr)
• German: Ladendiebstahl begehen
• Hungarian: lop (hu)
• Japanese: 万引きする (ja) (manbiki suru)
• Polish: kraść w sklepie impf, ukraść w sklepie pf
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ladronear (es), latrocinar (es)
• Swedish: snatta (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} جنس بلند کردن (fa) (jens boland kardan)

See also

• steal