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Definition of shoplifting : Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Synonyms:

hold-up, carjacking, identity theft, shrinkage, breaking and entering, grand larceny, break-in, shrinking

hauling, nipping, extorting, stealing, fleecing, lifting, burglarizing, pilfering, embezzling, swiping, abstracting, holding up, copping, defrauding, sticking up, poaching, heisting, swindling, mugging, plagiarizing, hijacking, plundering, looting, blackmailing, grabbing, filching, pocketing, robbing, pirating, palming, rustling

extortion, blackmail, pilferage, larceny, burglary, banditry, plagiarism, holdup, robbery, stickup, theft, thievery, embezzlement, hijack, heist, abstraction, piracy

Usage examples:

• She continued abroad for two years or somewhat more; and then, under pretence of love to her children, ventured over to England again, where it was not long before she got acquainted with her old crew, who, if they were to be believed upon their oaths, were inferior to her in the art or mystery of shoplifting. - "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", Arthur L. Hayward.
• What practices she might pursue before she fell into shoplifting I have not been able to learn, and will not therefore impose upon my readers at the expense of a poor creature, who is so long ago gone to answer for her offences, which, as they were doubtless many of themselves, so they shall never be increased by me. - "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", Arthur L. Hayward.
• By this means a good part of them were recovered, and those who had so long lived by this infamous practice were either detected or destroyed; so that shoplifting has been thereby kept under ever since, or at least the offenders have not ventured in so large a way as before. - "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", Arthur L. Hayward.