shop v.2
1. to dismiss, esp. to dismiss a shop assistant.
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![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 76: It seemed probable that I should be shopped by Mrs. Effie for what she had been led to believe was my rowdyish behaviour. | |
 | Gunner xiv: If you’d done any jobs with him, as sure as death he would have shopped you. |
2. (US gay) to look for a sexual partner, whether in the street or in bars, clubs etc; thus shopping n.
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| Queens’ Vernacular 56: Mother does most of her shopping at the Y. |
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(US Mex. teen/gang) a convenience store.
| Always Running (1996) 76: The newly-sprouting convenience stores we called ‘shop and robs’. |
to have a number of sexual relationships before choosing one that will serve for marriage or the longer term; thus shopping around n.
| Man with the Golden Arm 116: Call me up when you’re eighteen. Right now I got to do some shoppin’ around. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 160: ‘Gees yer don’t just marry any sheila.’ ‘Yer wanter shop around.’. |
1. (Aus.) to cheat, to swindle.
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 4 Feb. 3/3: He had diddled people badly, / Shopped 'em in without a doubt. |
2. (Irish prison) for a non-prisoner, usu. a warder, to smuggle contraband goods or letters into/out of the prison.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | (con. 1940s) Confessions 57: A warder who made a few ha’pence shopping in drink and cigarettes and shopping out letters, until he was caught. |