stickup
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- noun
- /ˈstɪkˌʌp/
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- The bank teller was terrified during the stickup when the robber threatened her with a gun.
- stickup man
- stickup boy
- stickup guy
Examples
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Witnesses reported that the stickup occurred just before closing time when the store was nearly empty.
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After the stickup, the police found fingerprints on the counter where the robber had demanded cash.
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How would you guys like to go on a stickup with me?
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Here he is, dead in the middle of a stickup.
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You just walk in and tell the woman it's a stickup.
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For a minute there, I thought it was a stickup.
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What was it, a stickup?
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"For the mother of all stickups," Macklin said.
Fiction book (1999) -
You do soup jobs and stickups but you're not a gangster.
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"With a good education," Francis Kennedy said, "any burglar, stickup man, or any mugger will know enough to steal without hurting anyone."
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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Stealing things from people and places such as shops and banks using force or threats
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A planned theft of valuable things from a building like a bank
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Stealing from a person or place while using a weapon, usually a gun
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An act of stealing from someone by using threats or a weapon
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Etymology
The word stickup comes from the phrase stick up, which meant 'to hold up' someone by pointing a weapon and is like the common word hold-up, so stickup means a robbery, often at gunpoint.