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shoplifting

US // (ˈʃɒpˌlɪftɪŋ) //

入店行窃,入室行窃,入店盗窃,入店行竊

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of stealing goods from a shop during shopping hours

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Examples

  • Rioting, shoplifting, and violent confrontation with the police took place shortly thereafter.

  • Now, news has broken that Lauten herself was arrested as a teen for shoplifting.

  • A French sales clerk hovers over Mariame, as if assuming she is shoplifting because she is black and from the projects.

  • It was as if the five were charged with fifty counts of shoplifting, and one of strangling a grandmother.

  • There were jokes about Winston shoplifting crab legs earlier this year.

  • He wanted me to talk the gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't.

  • These lessons were in shoplifting, pocket picking, purse snatching and other forms of larceny requiring skill and deftness.

  • On a charge of shoplifting she was given an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years in the penitentiary at Joliet.

  • The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting.

  • The practice of shoplifting among ladies has increased lately to a fearful degree.