shopgoer

See also: shop-goer

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

shop +‎ goer

Noun

shopgoer (plural shopgoers)

  1. Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
    • 1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12:
      They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.
    • 1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge‎, page 151:
      His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective aphrodisiac.
    • 2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom‎, page 271:
      This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale.
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