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shopped

shopped is the simple past and past participle of shop.

Meaning of shop

Verb

shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)

  1. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
    • Why don’t you come shopping for gifts with me, early before the Christmas rush?
  2. (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
    • Shop our new arrivals.
  3. (UK, slang, transitive) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
    • He shopped his mates in to the police.
    Synonyms:
    grass up
  4. (UK, slang, transitive) To imprison.
  5. (Internet, transitive) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
  6. (archaic, slang, transitive) To dismiss from employment.
    Synonyms:
    fire, sack

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Phrases with shopped

Questions about shopped

What is shopped the simple past and past participle of?
Shopped is the simple past and past participle of shop.

Words near shopped in the dictionary

  1. shopowner
  2. shopowners
  3. shoppability
  4. shoppable
  5. shoppe
  6. shopped
  7. shopped around
  8. shopper
  9. shoppers
  10. shoppertainment
  11. shoppes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shopped (page history and authors); shop (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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