Synonyms for shoplifting
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shop-lift |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɒpˌlɪft |
Top 10 synonyms for shoplifting Other synonyms for the word shoplifting
Définition of shoplifting
Origin :- 1690s, "stealing of goods from a shop;" see shoplifter.
- verb steal
- One of his detectives arrested her on a charge of shoplifting.
- Extract from : « The Third Degree » by Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
- He wanted me to talk the gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't.
- Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Richard Maples
- "It's a wonder you weren't arrested for shoplifting," said Mr. Brief.
- Extract from : « Half-Hours with the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
- In the same place with himself and another man mere was a woman very genteelly dressed, who had been committed for shoplifting.
- Extract from : « Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences » by Arthur L. Hayward
- It was old Dr. Blair, from Carmody, and he was looking at me as if he had found me shoplifting.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Avonlea » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The practice of shoplifting among ladies has increased lately to a fearful degree.
- Extract from : « The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 » by George W. M. Reynolds
- These lessons were in shoplifting, pocket picking, purse snatching and other forms of larceny requiring skill and deftness.
- Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
- On a charge of shoplifting she was given an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years in the penitentiary at Joliet.
- Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
- The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting.
- Extract from : « Jack Sheppard, Vol. I (of III) » by W. Harrison Ainsworth
Antonyms for shoplifting
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