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Meanings of heist in English
Synonyms
Examples for "holdup"
Examples for "holdup"
1
The really great immediate universal emergency to-day in America is the holdup.
2
They were too well dressed, he decided, to be ordinary holdup men.
3
Ostensibly, the holdup is coming from the end of the movie studios.
4
Then it all started with the holdup of that Shiloh Tool outfit?
5
Three did, but the others fled, triggering rumors of an attempted holdup.
1
I will write them a letter who did the stickup last November.
2
Who thought for one amazed second it was a stickup.
3
In a shootout during a cheap Center City stickup, I had killed a child.
4
Ward, you don't look to me in any kind of condition to do a stickup.
5
But nothing could have seemed less like a stickup.
1
If they committed armed robbery at age 14 that's a good predictor.
2
Three men were arrested after an armed robbery in Dublin early today.
3
Christchurch police are investigating an armed robbery in Woolston early this morning.
4
He was found guilty on 12 charges, including armed robbery and kidnapping.
5
Gardaí are investigating an armed robbery in south Co Dublin this morning.
Usage of heist in English
1
The Bangladesh heist led financial institutions around the globe to bolster security.
2
King of thieves is that increasingly common thing, the senior heist movie.
3
Sometimes, however, if we got shorthanded I'd go on the heist myself.
4
There is nothing conventional about either bank heist or bank heist film.
5
UPDATE 1-For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?
6
Out from Wed Now You See Me Jesse Eisenberg leads heist-happy magicians.
7
I'm great at tracking, but I've little experience pulling off a heist.
8
He will deservedly dine out on this heist for all his days.
9
Gosling's voice is his usual bashfully sexy mumble until the first heist.
10
If she was, then this was my chance to derail Nicodemus's heist.
11
Sibonelo and his crew arrive at the heist location after duping Nkunzi.
12
Video has emerged of a cash-in-transit heist in Springfield Park on Monday.
13
I'm launching the biggest heist there's ever been in all of history.
14
On its face the heist seemed like a simple, stupid, uncivil act.
15
The report implicates politicians, businessmen and companies in the almost R2 billion heist.
16
One thing most seem to agree on: The heist was an inside job.
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Portuguese
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Heist through the time
Heist across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare
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