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deshopper

noun

Etymology

From de- + shopper.

  1. inherited from *skub-✻
  2. inherited from *skupp-✻
  3. inherited from sċoppa — “shed; booth; stall; shop”
  4. inherited from shoppe
  5. formed as shopper — “shop + -er”
  6. prefixed as deshopper — “de + shopper”

Definitions

  1. A person who practises deshopping.

    • The deshopper is “stealing beauty” and robbing the product of some of its undetectable essence, without losing the quality of newness which is required for the product to remain returnable.
    • They are the deshoppers - a scam that has cost stores £63million this year.
    • […] there is almost no actual control over the behaviour as none of the deshoppers interviewed had ever been caught.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for deshopper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA