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heist

  [hahyst] Slang.
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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

Related forms:
heister, noun
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heist   (hīst)   
tr.v.   heist·ed, heist·ing, heists
  1. To steal: heisted the collection of jewels from the museum.
  2. To hold up; rob.
n.  A robbery; a burglary.

[Alteration of hoist.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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
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