stickup

See also: stick up

English

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

See also

• stick up

Anagrams

• up stick, up-ticks, upticks