stickup
or stick-up
a holdup; robbery.
Origin of stickup
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How to use stickup in a sentence
In 1988, after another steady gig fell through, he decided to try a stickup.
The American parole system is an endless trap — and a moral outrage | Jennifer Miller | May 24, 2021 | Washington PostAnderson, the stickup youth who operated extensively on the north side, choosing women for his victims, is but 23 years old.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. WooldridgeThese rest-stops always had a license-plate cam at the entrance and a couple of anti-stickup cams around the cashier.
Makers | Cory DoctorowLuis grunted with satisfaction—this might be only a stickup, but he was getting action faster than he'd expected.
Forget Me Nearly | Floyd L. Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for stick-up
slang, mainly US a robbery at gunpoint; hold-up
(tr) slang, mainly US to rob, esp at gunpoint
(intr foll by for) informal to support or defend: stick up for oneself
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Other Idioms and Phrases with 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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