shopdropping

English

Etymology

shop +‎ dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

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:
      Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
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