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Meanings of shoplifter in English

A thief who steals goods that are in a store.

Synonyms
Examples for "booster"
Examples for "booster"
1
Music has been an essential morale booster for the international workers' movement.
Radio NZ
2
The event was judged a great success, and a wonderful morale booster.
The new yorker
3
I know from personal experience that sleep is a creative juice booster.
Wired
4
But sometimes even mature companies need a booster to get into orbit.
Wired
5
There simply won't be enough fuel remaining to navigate the booster back.
Wired
1
The power-lifter veins in his forehead bulged slightly as I annoyed him.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
2
A blackened gouge appeared in the steel hull of the lifter overhead.
Mech
3
If a link lifter or arm were broken, what should be done?
The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
4
Hope they all made it, said Dorman, calling in a rescue-lifter.
Mech
5
The nearest lifter wasn't far from the spot where his home had been.
The dark griffin
Usage of shoplifter in English
1
Louie was a shoplifter who had lost what nerve he ever had.
Junky
2
In Cambridge the barman stacks glasses, glancing up like I'm a shoplifter.
Lit: a memoir
3
A shoplifter Tasered by Sussex Police has issued a complaint to the force.
BBC
4
Surveillance cameras may be watching, and not because you might be a shoplifter.
Reuters
5
Unfortunately for the retailer, their enthusiastic customer was a shoplifter.
The Irish Times
6
The shoplifter had stolen $650 worth of pharmaceutical goods from a supermarket.
News.com.au
7
It was only admitted when a Dunedin man was mistakenly identified as a shoplifter.
Radio NZ
8
It was only admitted when a Dunedin man was mistakenly idenitifed as a shoplifter.
Radio NZ
9
A shoplifter rarely becomes a habitual criminal until after she passes the age of twenty-five.
The Dream Doctor
10
And yet, you are the real shoplifter, after all.
Constance Dunlap
11
A serial shoplifter has been jailed for stealing designer handbags from a Dublin department store.
The Irish Times
12
PC James Kiddie received a community order after being found guilty of assaulting a suspected shoplifter.
The Guardian
13
In two long strides he reached the woman and took the suspected shoplifter by the arm.
The preacher
14
He was also a shoplifter and a raider of chemists to feed his burgeoning drug habit.
The Guardian
15
By this time the other store detectives must have caught the shoplifter and bag-opener who touched you.
Constance Dunlap
16
Winona Ryder may face probation for shoplifting - yet a three-time shoplifter was jailed for 50 years.
The Irish Times
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