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shoppin'

US/ˈʃɑpɪn/

shoppin' is the pronunciation spelling of shopping.

Meaning of shopping

Noun

shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)

  1. (usually) The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
    • On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
  2. (usually) Recently bought goods.
    • I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
  3. (usually) An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
    • Boston has good shopping.
  4. (usually) Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
    • The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643

Questions about shoppin'

What is shoppin' the pronunciation spelling of?
Shoppin' is the pronunciation spelling of shopping.
How do you pronounce shoppin'?
Shoppin' is pronounced /ˈʃɑpɪn/ (US).

Words near shoppin' in the dictionary

  1. shoppie
  2. shoppier
  3. shoppies
  4. shoppiest
  5. shoppily
  6. shoppin'
  7. shoppiness
  8. shopping
  9. shopping agent
  10. shopping agents
  11. shopping around

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoppin' (page history and authors); shopping (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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