Definition of shoplifter
: one who shoplifts
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He was fatally shot last week while questioning a suspected shoplifter at a Home Depot store.
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Here’s an illustrative story: Some years ago, a trio of shoplifters was operating at an upscale department store near my home in Silver Spring, Md.
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The fleeing shoplifters in a minivan resorted to driving on residential lawns in sequential car chases that began in Franklin and ended in Racine County on Friday, April; 20.
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Theft, Golden Gate Plaza: Two shoplifters fled from Marshall's Clothing April 10 and officers located one of them hiding in the back of a van.
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The Play-Doh trick didn’t work, though, so the would-be shoplifter ran off, police said.
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According to CBS New York, the man was a shoplifter.
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Police were searching the parking lot for shoplifters from an incident at the nearby Walmart Supercenter and saw drug paraphernalia through the car window.
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Others would end up with felons, shoplifters and one of Anchorage's most notorious car thieves.
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First Known Use of shoplifter
1680
Law Dictionary
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