English

Alternative forms

• shop-goer

Noun

shopgoer ‎(plural shopgoers)

1. Someone who goes to a shop.
   • 1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12:

     They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.

   • 1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge, page 151:

     His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts a a quick, effective aphrodisiac.

   • 2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom, page 271:

     This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale.