shopdropping

English

Etymology

From shop +‎ dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

shopdropping (uncountable)

1. The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of countercultural performance art.

   Synonym: droplifting

   • 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.