stickup

A robbery at gunpoint.

He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.

The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.

A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.

A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.