stickup

See also: stick up and stick-up

English

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Etymology

stick +‎ up

Noun

stickup (plural stickups)

  1. A robbery at gunpoint.
    Synonyms: hold-up, armed robbery
    • 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.
    • 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:
      One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.
  2. A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.

Translations
robbery at gun point — see hold-up,‎ armed robbery

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