Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who shops compulsively or very frequently.
Wiktionary
- n. One who shops very frequently.
- n. Common term applied to someone suffering from oniomania.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a compulsive shopper
Examples
“Wed 05/12/10 12: 59 PM ill go see the movie coz im sure Hugh will deliver another good performance as he did in shopaholic and adam, ,and pls!!”
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“My husband, a self-labeled "shopaholic", took much longer than I did to adjust to living in Mexico.”
“Now, don't go and peg me as some kind of shopaholic, mall rat because I'm not!”
“Zhang Chi, a 26-year-old self-confessed "shopaholic", struggled with a stack of stuff she purchased online at Taobao,”
“Houston: A top Indian-American "shopaholic" executive, with a US-based electronic goods firm was fired after she allegedly embezzled a whopping $20 million from the”
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“Are we going to also upgrade "shopaholic" behavior to Retail Impulse Control Disorder and classify participation in Second Life computer game as Virtual Reality Dissociative Disorder?”
“shopaholic" against your friends with the virtual closet.”
“Isn't the fact the the shopaholic materialistic Brits are finally buying less tat good news?”
“More importantly, Bank of America has taken to the banking crisis like a shopaholic with a new credit card; it has been bargain-hunting and cutting some astonishing deals.”
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