Taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear.
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Examples for "rob "
1 You never rob from the working class area you're from; no way.
2 They said Beasley wanted to rob his victims and steal their identities.
3 This can rob the use of a number elsewhere on the ground.
4 Their intention probably was to rob and leave him in the desert.
5 I'd be happy to let him know you tried to rob us.
1 It said the group had been responsible for brutal attacks and robbery .
2 If they committed armed robbery at age 14 that's a good predictor.
3 Three men were arrested after an armed robbery in Dublin early today.
4 I did not find out this latter detail - this robbery , - until six months ago.
5 If you have any information regarding this robbery please contact Crime Stoppers.
1 Two men appeared in court yesterday charged with robbing four Dublin brothels.
2 That grave robbing probably wouldn't be good for her after her accident.
3 Tells how they work; the fined imposed for robbing a falcon's nest.
4 When you're robbing a bank you don't stop to count the change.
5 They think they can make more money selling drugs or robbing people.
1 Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging .
2 No need to be mugging up on briefs on the tribunal steps.
3 Funny, I hadn't even remembered the mugging until a few moments ago.
4 But it was our first time mugging for the camera, as well.
5 The conquerors of Milan were subjected to an elegant mugging by Blackpool.
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 Witherow defended the use of blagging and subterfuge in the public interest.
2 In Britain, media industry sources said, blagging is usually illegal.
3 I got out of the blagging habit for a while.
4 I feel like I'm blagging it, to be honest.
5 I want to see plenty of blagging , loads of bumphing, and a good bit of blatching.
1 A stick - up man came along, and tried to hold up his stand.
2 There's something besides stick - up men worth a man's thinking about, little horse!
3 That building is known for its stick-up-its-ass board, but it's inscrutable.
4 Station, and they would finish off the day by moonlighting as stick - up artists.
5 The reference to an armed stick - up raised Marcus's head, floating on a smile.
6 A long row of giants in stick - up collars confronted him.
7 Then I popped in a stick - up (a vaginal cleaning insert) then showered.
8 Pollard mentioned your seeing the stick - up man at Harte's cabin.
9 You'll keep me remembering how much we've always despised conceited, stuck - up people?
10 But the people in Paris were a bunch of stuck - up , self-righteous pricks.
11 Stuck - up though they were, nobody with good sense could turn down Daddy's fish.
12 I'd like to take the starch out uv the stuck - up feller.
13 There is only feckless old Miss Joliffe and her stuck - up niece.
14 Omar stick - ups : Omar pulls off an almighty heist, supported by his old soldiers.
15 Those horrid, stuck - up paying girls don't want you; and we do.
16 Still, I'm not surprised at anything she'd do, the stuck - up thing.
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