shopping
noun
[ ˈʃɒpɪŋ ]
• the action or activity of buying goods from shops.
• "shopping is so exhausting—all those decisions!"
shop
verb
• visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods.
• "she shopped for groceries twice a week"
Similar:
go shopping,
do the shopping,
buy what one needs/wants,
buy things,
go to the shops,
buy,
purchase,
get,
acquire,
obtain,
pick up,
snap up,
procure,
stock up on,
get in supplies of,
look to buy,
be in the market for,
• inform on (someone).
• "she shopped her husband to bosses for taking tools home"
Similar:
inform on/against,
betray,
sell out,
tell tales on,
be disloyal to,
be unfaithful to,
break one's promise to,
break faith with,
stab in the back,
tell on,
rat on,
put the finger on,
squeal on,
snitch on,
peach on,
sing about,
sell down the river,
blow the whistle on,
grass on,
split on,
stitch up,
do the dirty on,
rat out,
finger,
fink on,
drop a/the dime on,
pimp on,
pool,
put someone's pot on,
• alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software.
• "I reckon you shopped the image"
Origin:
Middle 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 century) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), hence shop (sense 2 of the verb).
