a late WOTY entrant: "Shopdropping"

[Laurence Horn]

No, it doesn't relate to shopping until one drops.  Rather, according
to a front-page article in today's Times,

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/us/24shopdrop.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

it's "reverse shoplifting", characterized by "surreptitiously putting
things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out".
Motivations vary.  (See also http://shopdropping.net/, where you will
learn that the verb "shopdrop" also exists, although I suspect it may
be a back-formation.

LH

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