heist
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Audio Help [hahyst] Pronunciation Key Slang. –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist. |
| 2. | to take unlawfully, esp. in a robbery or holdup; steal: to heist a million dollars' worth of jewels. |
| 3. | to rob or hold up. |
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tr.v. heist·ed, heist·ing, heists
n. A robbery; a burglary. [Alteration of hoist.] |
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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."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| heist | |
noun | |
| 1. | the act of stealing |
| 2. | robbery at gunpoint [syn: armed robbery] |
verb | |
| 1. | commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarize] |
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