Showing Results for "stick-up"

See Also:

• a variation of stickup.

Jump to:

• stick-up
  stick-up

  noun

  a robbery at gunpoint; hold-up
• stick up
  stick up

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

stick-up

British  

noun

1. slang a robbery at gunpoint; hold-up

---

verb

1. slang (tr) to rob, esp at gunpoint

2. informal to support or defend

   stick up for oneself

stick up Idioms  

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

2. Put up a poster or notice, as in Will you stick up this announcement on the bulletin board? [Late 1700s]

3. Rob, especially at gunpoint, as in The gang concentrated on sticking up liquor stores and gas stations . This usage, dating from the mid-1800s, gave rise to the colloquial phrase, stick 'em up , a robber's order to a victim to raise his or her hands above the head. [1930s]

---

Related Words

• bereave
• break into
• cheat
• defraud
• divest
• hijack
• loot
• lose
• mug
• plunder
• raid
• ransack
• strip