shop
verb/ʃɒp/
/ʃɑːp/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they shop | /ʃɒp/ /ʃɑːp/ |
| he / she / it shops | /ʃɒps/ /ʃɑːps/ |
| past simple shopped | /ʃɒpt/ /ʃɑːpt/ |
| past participle shopped | /ʃɒpt/ /ʃɑːpt/ |
| -ing form shopping | /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/ /ˈʃɑːpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to buy things in shops
- I shop there from time to time.
- I bumped into him when I was out shopping with my mother.
- to shop online
- They shop in the same supermarket.
- He likes to shop at the local market.
- It is just as cheap to shop at your local village store.
- shop for something to shop for food
- We tend to go into Edinburgh to shop for clothes.
- She was determined to go out and shop till she dropped (= until she was too tired to walk around any more).
- [transitive] (used especially in marketing) to choose and buy things, especially online
- to shop the store/collection/sale
- Shop our pick of the best platform boots here.
- Scroll down below for ideas and shop your sneakers without wasting any time.
- go shopping[intransitive] to spend time going to shops and looking for things to buy
- There should be plenty of time to go shopping before we leave New York.
- ‘Where's Mum?’ ‘She went shopping.’
- She told her parents she was going shopping with friends.
- [transitive] shop somebody (to somebody) (British English, informal) to give information to somebody, especially to the police, about somebody who has committed a crime
- He didn't expect his own mother to shop him to the police.
buy
tell police about somebody
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French eschoppe ‘lean-to booth’, of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf ‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th cent.) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), which led to sense (3).
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