Filch vs Shoplift - What's the difference?
filch | shoplift |
To steal, to illegally take possession of.
(obsolete) A shoplifter.
* 1704 , John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle , Athenian Society, Volume III,
To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
* 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker ,
To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
* 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!'', ''The Rotarian ,
* 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community'', '' ,
* 2002 November 25, The New Yorker ,
In lang=en terms the difference between filch and shoplift
is that filch is to steal, to illegally take possession of while shoplift is to steal from shops / stores during trading hours.As verbs the difference between filch and shoplift
is that filch is to steal, to illegally take possession of while shoplift is to steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.As a noun shoplift is
(obsolete) a shoplifter.filch
English
Verb
(es)- Hey! Someone filched my noggin.
Synonyms
* lift, nick, pinch, pocket, rob, thieve, flog, (Cockney rhyming slang) half-inch, (slang) knock off, (slang) jack * See alsoshoplift
English
(shoplifting)Noun
(en noun)page 67,
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Verb
(en verb)- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
page 52,
- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted , a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
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- Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc''., ''etc .
- In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift .
