shopdropping
English edit
Etymology edit
shop + dropping, modelled on shoplifting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shopdropping (uncountable)
- 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.