Shop Buy Verb Bre ʃɒp ʃɑːp Food Likes

• to shop for food
• he likes to shop at the local market.
• she was determined to go out and shop till she dropped.
• we tend to go into edinburgh to shop for clothes.

shop

1. to buy things in shops/stores
• to shop for food
• He likes to shop at the local market.
• She was determined to go out and shop till she dropped.
• We tend to go into Edinburgh to shop for clothes.
2. 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.
3. to spend time going to shops/stores 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.’
4. 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.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they shop
• he / she / it shops
• past simple shopped
• past participle shopped
• -ing form shopping

Word 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 cent.) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), which led to sense (3).