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Shoplifter   /ʃˈɑplˌɪftər/   Listen
Shoplifter

noun
1.
A thief who steals goods that are in a store.  Synonyms: booster, lifter.






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"Shoplifter" Quotes from Famous Books



... run to ruin for want of humanizing influences! They hung poor, crazy Bellingham for shooting Mr. Perceval. The ordinary of Newgate preached to women who were to swing at Tyburn for a petty theft as if they were worse than other people,—just as though he would not have been a pickpocket or shoplifter, himself, if he had been born in a den of thieves and bred up to steal or starve! The English law never began to get hold of the idea that a crime was not necessarily a sin, till Hadfield, who thought he was the Saviour ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Shoplifter" :   lifter, shoplift, booster, stealer, thief



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