Shoplifter

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:06:29

Shop"lift`er (?), n. [Shop + lift. See Lift to steal.]

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

 

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