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stickup
noun 3
Collocations
2STICKUP + NOUN
guy, lakewood
PREP.
during, in
Definitions
noun
1
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.
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.
3
A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — robbery at gunpoint
- heist
- holdup
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.
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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.
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One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.
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