English

Alternative forms

• shopsteal

Verb

shop steal ‎(third-person singular simple present shop steals, present participle shop stealing, simple past and past participle -) (past tense and past participle not attested)

1. (Australia) To shoplift.

   If you detect a person shop stealing, report it to the police.

   • 1983, John A. Seymour, Juvenile Justice in South Australia, page 15,

     For example, shop stealing cases of the kind already described are regularly dealt with at the scene and, afterwards, at a police station without any involvement of parents or guardians.

   • 2001 April 25, Doggy, “Bag Search Refusal”, in aus.legal, Usenet^[1-25]:

     I have also in the past had court orders taken out on our known shop stealing customers to prevent them from entering my store.

Synonyms

• shoplift

Derived terms

• shop stealer