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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOP'LIFTER, n. [shop and lift. See Lift.] One who steals any thing from a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion the steal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a thief who steals goods that are in a store [syn: booster, shoplifter, lifter]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1680 one who shoplifts

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person who steals goods while appearing to shop. Derivatives: shoplifting n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shoplifter Shop"lift`er, n. [Shop + lift. See Lift to steal.] One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see shoplift

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Shop-thief.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

One that steals whilst pretending to purchase goods in a shop.

Moby Thesaurus

body snatcher, booster, chicken thief, con man, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, poacher, prowler, purloiner, robber, scrounger, sneak thief, stealer, swindler, thief, white-collar thief