heist
Use Heist in a sentence
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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heist (haɪst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a robbery |
| —vb | |
| 2. | (tr) to steal or burgle |
| [variant of | |
| 'heister | |
| —n | |
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Heist
is one of our favorite verbs.
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Etymonline
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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Example sentences
He is currently working on a book about the world's largest unsolved art heist.
But doubts remain over whether the case is connected to the information heist.
In the same way, economic inequality is not in question when an armed robber kills a bank guard in an attempted heist.
The breakfast before the heist in reservoir dogs is another example.
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