(transitive) To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
(intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
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[...]and indeed it seems a Hardſhip in our Laws, that a poor Shoplift ſhou′d be hang′d for breaking in and pilfering a few Goods,[...].
She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
When a woman in midlife shoplifts, it usually signals one thing: depression.