heist
See also: Heist
English
Etymology
Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.
Pronunciation
Noun
heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)
- A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
- 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
- (uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot.
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- 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 28,
- The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
- 2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:
- The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]
Translations
a robbery or burglary
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Verb
heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)
- (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).
Derived terms
Translations
to steal, rob or hold up something
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Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
heist
- past participle of heise
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