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shopgoer

shopgoer noun: someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.

Noun

shopgoer (plural shopgoers)

  1. Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
    • They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12
    • His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective...1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge, page 151

Forms of shopgoer

pluralshopgoers
alternative formshop-goer

Origin of shopgoer

From shop + goer.

Questions about shopgoer

What does shopgoer mean?
Shopgoer means someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
What part of speech is shopgoer?
Shopgoer is a noun.
What is the plural of shopgoer?
The plural of shopgoer is shopgoers.

Words near shopgoer in the dictionary

  1. shopful
  2. shopfuls
  3. shopgirl
  4. shopgirlish
  5. shopgirls
  6. shopgoer
  7. shopgoers
  8. shopgrift
  9. shopgrifted
  10. shopgrifting
  11. shopgrifts

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