shop stealer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shoplifter. Australia
    — If you suspect a shop stealer, pay this person a lot of attention.

词形变化

shop stealers plural shopstealer alternative shop-stealer alternative

词源

Unclear, but ultimately from shoplifter (which predates the verb shoplift). Structurally, shop steal + -er, but perhaps more likely is that both verb and agent noun forms were coined around the same time by alteration of shoplift / shoplifter to carry the nuanced greater emphasis on theft.
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