holdup man
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of holdup man
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Friday offers two Hitchcocks: In “Rope,” Mr. Stewart is the voice of moral reason while foiling Leopold-and-Loeb-like killers; in “The Wrong Man,” Mr. Fonda plays a jazz musician mistaken for a holdup man.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2017
When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond avoids compromising Irene Vail by posing as a holdup man, seizing Irene's jewels, kidnapping her so that he can return them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a Baltimore jury acquitted him last month, forcing frustrated Judge Joseph L. Carter, as he put it, to "foist a professional holdup man on the public."
From Time Magazine Archive
You acted as if you thought I might be a holdup man.
From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
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