shopdropping

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English

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Etymology

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From shop +‎ dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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shopdropping (uncountable)

  1. The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of countercultural performance art.
    Synonym: droplifting
    • 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage”, in New York Times[1]:
      Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.