shoplift
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Origin of shoplift
Related Words for shoplifting
pilfer, burglarize, pinch, heist, swipe, snatch, lift, take, pillage, embezzle, loot, defraudExamples from the Web for shoplifting
Contemporary Examples of shoplifting
Rioting, shoplifting, and violent confrontation with the police took place shortly thereafter.
Now, news has broken that Lauten herself was arrested as a teen for shoplifting.
A French sales clerk hovers over Mariame, as if assuming she is shoplifting because she is black and from the projects.
It was as if the five were charged with fifty counts of shoplifting, and one of strangling a grandmother.
There were jokes about Winston shoplifting crab legs earlier this year.
Historical Examples of shoplifting
One of his detectives arrested her on a charge of shoplifting.
The Third DegreeCharles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
He wanted me to talk the gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't.
The ScapegoatRichard Maples
"It's a wonder you weren't arrested for shoplifting," said Mr. Brief.
Half-Hours with the IdiotJohn Kendrick Bangs
In the same place with himself and another man mere was a woman very genteelly dressed, who had been committed for shoplifting.
It was old Dr. Blair, from Carmody, and he was looking at me as if he had found me shoplifting.
Chronicles of AvonleaLucy Maud Montgomery