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noun
1.
a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
verb (used with object)
2.
to take unlawfully, especially in a robbery or holdup; steal: to heist a million dollars' worth of jewels.
3.
to rob or hold up.
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Example Sentences
- In the same way, economic inequality is not in question when an armed robber kills a bank guard in an attempted heist.
- But doubts remain over whether the case is connected to the information heist.
- Whether it's a dramatic museum heist or opportunistic house-burglary, all of them fuel a lucrative black market.
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Word Origin & History
heist
1927 (in heister "shoplifter, thief"), Amer.Eng. slang, probably dialectal alt. of hoist "lift," in sense of "shoplift," also in older British slang "to lift another on one's shoulders to help him break in."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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