Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A robbery, especially at gunpoint.
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- noun A
robbery atgunpoint - noun A small diameter tree
branch orlimb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in alake orriver .
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- noun robbery at gunpoint
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The stickup was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The stickup was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months.
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The stickup was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months.
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The pen he holds as a gun in the opening lines suggests Heaney is a kind of stickup man at first, taking aim at his father for doing undignified work, which Heaney must "look down" on.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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June 21 edition of Fox News 'stated that BP had been the victim of a "political shakedown" and a "stickup" to force the company to fund the $20 billion "slush fund."
LT Saloon 2010
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The top U.S. official in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, disputed that Friday, saying police did not consider what she deemed witness accounts of the stickup, which were aired on Pakistani television in the days after the shooting.
Pakistani police report deems American official 'guilty' in shootings Karin Brulliard 2011
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Seriously, if you walk into a bank and say "this is a stickup," you go to jail.
In new TV ad, DNC pushes for financial regulatory overhaul 2010
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Hell, this nigga hung out with Gunz, a known stickup kid.
Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011
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Hell, this nigga hung out with Gunz, a known stickup kid.
Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011
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The top U.S. official in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, disputed that Friday, saying police did not consider what she deemed witness accounts of the stickup, which were aired on Pakistani television in the days after the shooting.
Pakistani police report deems American official 'guilty' in shootings Karin Brulliard 2011
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