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Definition of Shoplifters
1. shoplifter [n] - See also: shoplifter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoplifters
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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