Definition of Shoplifters

1. Noun. (plural of shoplifter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shoplifters

1. shoplifter [n] - See also: shoplifter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoplifters

shophar
shophars
shophouse
shophouses
shophroth
shopkeep
shopkeeper
shopkeeperly
shopkeepers
shopkeeping
shopkeeps
shopless
shoplift
shoplifted
shoplifter
shoplifters (current term)
shoplifting
shopliftings
shoplifts
shoplike
shopmaid
shopmaids
shopman
shopmen
shopowner
shoppe
shopped
shoppers
shoppes

Literary usage of Shoplifters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Criminals of America, Or, Tales of the Lives of Thieves: Enabling Every One by Philip Farley (1876)
"shoplifters reverse the order of that, and believe in three for company. Several reasons combine to make this arrangement a pleasant one, the principal of ..."

2. Evils of the Cities: A Series of Practical and Popular Discourses Delivered by Thomas De Witt Talmage, Richard S. Rhodes (1903)
"There are the "harbor thieves," the "shoplifters," the "pickpockets," famous all over the cities. Hundreds of them with their faces in the Rogues' Gallery, ..."

3. London life at the police-courts by W H. Watts (1864)
"FOREIGN shoplifters. AMONG the most remarkable of the foreign shoplifters who periodically visited the metropolis some years ago, were Eugene and Caroline ..."

4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"A few skillful male and female shoplifters occasionally succeed in ... Two or three of the shoplifters acting in concert now call at the jewelry store. ..."

5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"A few skillful male and female shoplifters occasionally succeed in ... Two or three- of the shoplifters acting in concert now call at the jewelry store. ..."

6. The Making of a Merchant by Harlow Niles Higinbotham (1906)
"tect the department store and its patrons from swindlers, shoplifters, pickpockets and sneak thieves. The house detectives of these large retail ..."

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