holdup man

noun

1. a person who commits an armed robbery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of holdup man¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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.

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In 1986, Ralph Sr., sitting at his desk, pulled out a pistol and fired three shots at a would-be holdup man who burst into the office wearing a ski mask and carrying a Luger.

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An Emergency Service Officer, who is in an observation position, sees the holdup man place a .38-caliber derringer to his temple and fire it.

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A former police detective was arrested Tuesday in connection with a string of gunpoint robberies of Brooklyn pharmacies in which the holdup man demanded narcotics rather than money, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said.

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You acted as if you thought I might be a holdup man.

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