shoplift

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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, […] .

2. 2
   verb

   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

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   steal in a store

Etymology

Back-formation from shoplifter.