shoplifting
/ʃˈɑplˌɪftɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting."
- "1757 December 22, The London Chronicle, Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594, Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dreſs'd, was detected at Mr. Flint′s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting, and on examining her, there were found on her ſome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ſame Place."
- "Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year."
- "On my first day on the watch after leaving the shoplifting squad I paraded on earlies but had completely forgotten to take my ear ring off."
- "In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts."
- "And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments."