stickup
English
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[edit]stickup (plural stickups)
- A robbery at gunpoint.
- Synonyms: hold-up, armed robbery
- 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.
- 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22:
- The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.
- 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:
- One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.
- A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
- (slang) A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.