shoplifter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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shoplifter (plural shoplifters)
- A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
Shoplifters will be prosecuted.- 1832, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 6, page 478:
The shoplifters are much less to be dreaded than the sneak, as they do not carry off cash, rarely any very valuable property […] - 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92:
Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […] - 2007 October 28, Joe Queenan, “Consider the Toothpick”, in The New York Times[1]:
[…] just as the unchastised teenage shoplifter, mistaking society’s indulgence for applause, will evolve into a bloodthirsty hired killer, it is inevitable that the author of “The Pencil” will one day morph into the author of “The Toothpick.”
- 1832, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 6, page 478:
- shop stealer (Australia)
- shoplift
- shoplifting
one who steals from shops
- Catalan: lladre de botigues m or f
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 商店小偷 (shāngdiàn xiǎotōu) - Dutch: winkeldief (nl) m
- Finnish: myymälävaras (fi)
- French: voleur à l’étalage m, voleuse à l’étalage f
- German: Ladendieb (de) m, Ladendiebin (de) f
- Hungarian: bolti tolvaj
- Icelandic: búðarþjófur m
- Italian: taccheggiatore (it) m
- Japanese: 万引き (ja) (まんびき, manbiki), 万引 (ja) (まんびき, manbiki)
- Korean: 들치기 (deulchigi)
- Māori: ringa kamakama
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: butikktjuv m, butikktyv m
Nynorsk: butikktjuv m - Polish: złodziej sklepowy m, złodziejka sklepowa f
- Russian: магази́нный вор m (magazínnyj vor), магази́нная воро́вка f (magazínnaja voróvka)
- Spanish: tendero (es) m (Peru, colloquial), hurtador (es) m, ratero (es) m, ladronzuelo (es) m, descuidero (es) m, shacador m (Argentina)
- Swedish: snattare (sv) c