shoplifter (shoplifter)

[ Like those women they call shop - lifters , who when they are challenged for their thefts appear to be mighty angry and affronted. Swift , Examiner, No. 28. shoplifting (shop'lifting), n. Larceny of goods committed in a shop; the stealing of goods from a shop. More honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it (Gravity) in one twelve-month than by pocket-picking and shop - lifting in seven. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 11. shop like (shop'lik), a. [ Be she never so shop - like or meretricious. B. Jonson, Discoveries.