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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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