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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)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) 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

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Forms of shop-lift

third-person singular presentshop-lifts
present participleshop-lifting
past participleshop-lifted
pastshop-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

  1. shop-bouncers
  2. shop-goer
  3. shop-goers
  4. shop-keeper
  5. shop-keepers
  6. shop-lift
  7. shop-lifted
  8. shop-lifting
  9. shop-lifts
  10. shop-soiled
  11. shop-vac

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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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