shopaholic

Look at other dictionaries:

• Shopaholic — can refer to:*A slang term for oniomania, or compulsive shopping *Shopaholic (novels), a series of books written by Madeleine Wickham under the pseudonym Sophie Kinsella * Shopaholic (television), a Norwegian television series broadcast by TV3… …   Wikipedia

• shopaholic — 1984, from SHOP (Cf. shop) (v.) + AHOLIC (Cf. aholic) …   Etymology dictionary

• shopaholic — ► NOUN informal ▪ a compulsive shopper …   English terms dictionary

• Shopaholic — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Shopaholic − Die Schnäppchenjägerin Originaltitel Confessions of a Shopaholic …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• shopaholic — UK [ˌʃɒpəˈhɒlɪk] / US [ˌʃɑpəˈhɔlɪk] noun [countable] Word forms shopaholic : singular shopaholic plural shopaholics informal someone who enjoys going to shops or enjoys buying things …   English dictionary

• Shopaholic — Sho|p|a|ho|lic [ʃɔpə hɔlɪk], der; s, s [engl. shopaholic, aus: shop = Einkauf (zu: shop, ↑ Shop) u. aholic = süchtig, verrückt, vgl. ↑ Workaholic]: jmd., der unter dem Zwang steht, unabhängig von seinen tatsächlichen Bedürfnissen einkaufen zu… …   Universal-Lexikon

• shopaholic — [[t]ʃɒ̱pəhɒ̱lɪk[/t]] shopaholics N COUNT A shopaholic is someone who greatly enjoys going shopping and buying things, or who cannot stop themselves doing this. [INFORMAL] …   English dictionary

• shopaholic — noun Date: 1983 one who is extremely or excessively fond of shopping …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• shopaholic — shop·a·hol·ic (shŏp ə hôʹlĭk, hŏlʹĭk) n. A person who shops compulsively or very frequently. * * * …   Universalium

• shopaholic — noun a) One who shops very frequently. Shopaholics lose a lot of their money and possibly go broke because theyve spent it all. b) Common term applied to someone suffering from oniomania …   Wiktionary

• shopaholic — shop|a|hol|ic [ˌʃɔpəˈhɔlık US ˌʃa:pəˈho: ] n informal someone who loves to go shopping and buys lots of things they may not need …   Dictionary of contemporary English