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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shoplift
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The clerk spotted the girl shoplifting and stopped her from leaving the store.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shoplifting diplomat caught on videotape was prosecuted by his own government.
▪ At least she only robbed bins and doorsteps, she didn't shoplift.
▪ Daniel was suspended for one game after being arrested for shoplifting last week....
▪ For example, one could not suffer amputation for shoplifting.
▪ He had taught them how to pick a lock, steal a car, to shoplift ... The list was endless.
▪ He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far, and felt sure that wouldn't be held against him.
▪ So I had to go out shoplifting every day then.
▪ The black and Hispanic community mobilized in the belief that the shoplifting charges and the shooting were unjustified.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shoplift

also shop-lift, 1820, back-formation from shoplifting. Related: Shop-lifted.

Wiktionary
shoplift

n. (context obsolete English) A shoplifter. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours. 2 (context intransitive English) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.

WordNet
shoplift

v. steal in a store

Wikipedia
Shoplift

Usage examples of "shoplift".

You played sports, and you shoplifted with your friend Sampson, and you were always tough.

After finding the chemical spray and charging the women with assault, officers helped open their car-and found shoplifted clothing on the backseat.

Either you understand that you are pleading guilty to shoplifting or you are not.

Stuart and told him that Meredith had been busted for shoplifting in a drugstore.

Have your security manager draw up a list of everyone who was detained for shoplifting, and have your credit manager give us a list of everyone denied credit in the last six months.

I wonder if the reports of theft and shoplifting shot up the day after the girls learned an accountant would be looking at their ledgers?

Gap, attesting to his apprehension of Trey in the act of shoplifting last June.

Billy, who knew all about shoplifting and jimmying locks and using Sterno to heat up cans of chili.

Juvie twice for shoplifting and is currently reported missing from a foster home in Orange County.

Chase and Jenny Anderson had records before their spectacular bank-robbing spree: shoplifting, poaching, unlicensed firearms, bootlegging, forged checks.

I can put up with the singing toilet and the shoplifting and the couches and I can put up with him being so weird about money.

The whole shoplifting thing, how my dad steals things, it figures that he went and stole my life.

In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.

Nothing here says so, precisely, but what makes the shoplifting possible on this scale must have something to do with the Christmas shopping season.

In fact, before you came in here talking about shoplifting, I was certain that the attack on Judy had to be related to the car theft and hit-and-run.