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shoplifted

shoplifted is the simple past and past participle 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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Questions about shoplifted

What is shoplifted the simple past and past participle of?
Shoplifted is the simple past and past participle of shoplift.

Words near shoplifted in the dictionary

  1. shopless
  2. shoplessness
  3. shoplet
  4. shoplets
  5. shoplift
  6. shoplifted
  7. shoplifter
  8. shoplifters
  9. shoplifting
  10. shopliftings
  11. shoplifts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoplifted (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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