| 释义 |
† shop-lift, n. Obs.
[f. shop n. + lift n.2 (sense 6).]
= shoplifter.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 106 Of the Shop lift. She is commonly well clad. Ibid. 191 The tenth is a Shoplift that carries a Bob, When he ranges the City the Shops for to rob. 1692Scarronides ii. 1 How Grecian Shop-lifts..Brake open honest Trojans doors. 1762Bridges Hom. Trav. I. (1797) 297 Thus shoplifts see their brothers taken. |