shoplifting means the action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.
Etymology
By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.
noun
- The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.“[…]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.”
- A theft from a shop during trading hours.“In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.”
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