more back-formed shopping

Thu Dec 4 14:11:14 UTC 2008

Somewhat of a stretch, but there is the term "store-bought" (dated by MWCD10 as 1905) which suggests (but does not prove) the existence of a term "to store-buy" with a sense somewhat related to the ones discussed on this thread.

     James A. Landau
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