Etymograph

English

shopdropping

From shop + dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

A compound of shop + dropping

Proto-Indo-European *skub-

Proto-Germanic *skupp- ‘barn’

Old English sċoppa ‘shed’

Middle English shoppe

English shop

Today it means

noun The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of advertising, countercultural performance art, protest, etc.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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