heist
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, conventional, earlier, gold, greatest, huge, involved, next
VERB + HEIST
begin, coin, proceeds, revealed
HEIST + NOUN
small-time, year
PREP.
from, in, in, with
ADV.
expertly
Definitions
noun
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
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.
A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.
The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
verb
To steal, rob, or hold up (something).
name
A surname.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The 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
WiktionaryIt is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.
WiktionaryThe Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
WiktionaryThe 2003 invasion of Iraq by American forces is the greatest heist of all time.
Tatoeba · #485126The thieves divvied up the proceeds from their heist.
Tatoeba · #2059128The heist was expertly planned.
Tatoeba · #3925633