shop-lift
shop-lift is the alternative spelling of shoplift.
Meaning of shoplift
Verb
shoplift (third-person singular simple present shoplifts, present participle shoplifting, simple past and past participle shoplifted)
- 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 Spoons2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker
- 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.1938 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52
Forms of shop-lift
| third-person singular present | shop-lifts |
|---|---|
| present participle | shop-lifting |
| past participle | shop-lifted |
| past | shop-lifted |
Questions about shop-lift
- What is shop-lift the alternative spelling of?
- Shop-lift is the alternative spelling of shoplift.
Words near shop-lift in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shop-lift (page history and authors); shoplift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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