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heist

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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, esp. in a robbery or holdup; steal: to heist a million dollars' worth of jewels.

3.	to rob or hold up.

[Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; alter. of hoist

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—Related forms

heister, noun

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tr.v. heist·ed, heist·ing, heists

To steal: heisted the collection of jewels from the museum.
To hold up; rob.

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."

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