shop-lifterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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shoplifter (plural shoplifters)

1. 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:

     […] 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.”

同意語

• shop stealer (Australia)

関連する語

• shoplift
• shoplifting