shoplift
(verb) steal in a store
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shoplift (plural shoplifts)
(obsolete) A shoplifter.
shoplift (third-person singular simple present shoplifts, present participle shoplifting, simple past and past participle shoplifted)
(transitive) To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
(intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
• shop steal (Australia)
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
