| 释义 |
shoplift, v.
[Back-formation f. shoplifting vbl. n.]
To steal from a shop while pretending to be a customer. a. intr.
1820[see sheep-steal v.]. 1843Punch 8 Apr. 150/1 Policeman, here's a wench Shoplifting, take the customer to jail. 1959Times 9 Mar. (Britain's Food Suppl.) p. ix/3 The temptation to shop-lift is one facet of the principle on which every self-service store depends. 1971Guardian 22 Feb. 9/1 When Mrs Brown gets depressed, she starts to shoplift.
b. trans.
1922Joyce Ulysses 741 A whore always shoplifting anything she could. 1979K. Conlon Move in Game i. iii. 39 She'd shoplifted a bottle of nail varnish remover. |