shopdroppingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From shop +‎ dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈʃɑpˌdɹɑpɪŋ/
• ハイフネーション: shop‧drop‧ping

名詞

shopdropping (uncountable)

1. (often art) The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of advertising, countercultural performance art, protest, etc.

   Synonym: droplifting

   • 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the aisles? Stores provide a stage”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

     This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. 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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• shopdropper