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Meanings of stickup in English

Portuguese
assalto
Catalan
assalt a mà armada
Spanish
asalto

Robbery at gunpoint.

assalto
Usage of stickup in English
1
I will write them a letter who did the stickup last November.
The Assistant
2
Who thought for one amazed second it was a stickup.
A singular man
3
In a shootout during a cheap Center City stickup, I had killed a child.
Shadow men
4
Ward, you don't look to me in any kind of condition to do a stickup.
The Assistant
5
But nothing could have seemed less like a stickup.
Archer’s Goon
6
Professional stickup artists and strong-arms received one warning not to ply their trade in the town.
The Godfather
7
Nobody will expect a stickup in this dump.
The Assistant
8
Now he has got another project made: David Mackenzie's politically aware stickup movie Hell or High Water.
The Guardian
9
And yet this is not a crime of cocaine dealers or heroin users or stickup artists or streetwalkers.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
10
We decided to forget the stickup.
Wiseguy
11
What you're seeing isn't a stickup.
Wild Storm
12
So it's a double stickup.
Life
13
They were strictly stickup guys.
Wiseguy
14
The New Yorker, September 3, 1932 P. 35 Tells about a stickup in Paul's Bar.
The new yorker
15
This is a stickup.
The Neutronium Alchemist
16
A stickup, I said!
Scrimshaw
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Translations for stickup
Stickup through the time