stickup

or stick-up

[ stik-uhp ]
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nounInformal.
  1. a holdup; robbery.

Origin of stickup

1
First recorded in 1855–60; noun use of verb phrase stick up

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British Dictionary definitions for stick-up

stick-up

noun
  1. slang, mainly US a robbery at gunpoint; hold-up

verbstick up (adverb)
  1. (tr) slang, mainly US to rob, esp at gunpoint

  2. (intr foll by for) informal to support or defend: stick up for oneself

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Other Idioms and Phrases with stickup

stickup

Project from a surface, as in That little cowlick of his sticks up no matter what you do. [Early 1400s]

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