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Rob vs Shoplift - What's the difference?

rob | shoplift |

As verbs the difference between rob and shoplift

is that rob is while shoplift is to steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.

As a noun shoplift is

(obsolete) a shoplifter.

rob

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).

Verb

(robb)
  • (lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
  • :
  • (lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
  • To deprive (of).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  • To burgle.
  • *2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
  • *:Her house was robbed .
  • (lb) To commit robbery.
  • (lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos , passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}
    Derived terms
    * on the rob * rob Peter to pay Paul * robber * robbery * rob somebody blind * rob the cradle

    Etymology 2

    (etyl); compare (etyl) rob, (etyl) rob, robbo, (etyl) robe, arrobe, and similar (etyl) and (etyl) words.

    Alternative forms

    * rhob, rohob

    Noun

    (-)
  • The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
  • Anagrams

    * bor * bro * orb 1000 English basic words ----

    shoplift

    English

    (shoplifting)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shoplifter.
  • * 1704 , John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle , Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67,
  • .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
  • * 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker ,
  • She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
  • To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
  • * 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!'', ''The Rotarian , 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.
  • * 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community'', '' , 22,
  • Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc''., ''etc .
  • * 2002 November 25, The New Yorker ,
  • In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift .

    Synonyms

    * shop steal (Australia)

    Derived terms

    * shoplifter * shoplifting