shoplifter

English

Etymology

From shop +‎ lifter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

shoplifter (plural shoplifters)

1. A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.

   Shoplifters will be prosecuted.

   • 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.”

Synonyms

• shop stealer (Australia)

Related terms

• shoplift
• shoplifting

Translations

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)
• Maori: ringa kamakama
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: butikktjuv m, butikktyv m

  Nynorsk: butikktjuv m

• Russian: магази́нный вор m (magazínnyj vor), магази́нная воро́вка f (magazínnaja voróvka)
• Spanish: tendero (es) m (Peru, colloquial)
• Swedish: snattare (sv) c