Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To steal.
- transitive verb To hold up; rob.
- noun A robbery; a burglary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
robbery orburglary , especially from aninstitution such as abank ormuseum . - noun slang A heist
film : a film whoseplot centers around anattempted robbery. - verb transitive To
steal ,rob , orhold up (something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
- noun robbery at gunpoint
- noun the act of stealing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Copenhagen as Income Redistribution 2009
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The bank heist is not the first crime that affected voters Tuesday.
Homewood Shooting: Bank Robbery Suspect Possibly Shot By Police, Local Polling Places Temporarily Closed Jen Sabella 2010
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The heist is successful, but when it comes to divide the money, the robbers get into a shootout which leaves all of them dead, except one guy who leaves to exact revenge before dying, himself.
Five Action Movies That Started Off As Foreign Films | myFiveBest 2010
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The bank heist is not the first crime that affected voters Tuesday.
Homewood Shooting: Bank Robbery Suspect Possibly Shot By Police, Local Polling Places Temporarily Closed Jen Sabella 2010
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And I thought maybe you'd tell us a bit about recovering a Rembrandt from a heist from a Swedish museum from a robbery that took place in 2000.
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First off, the daring — nay, impossible — heist is motivated mainly by revenge?
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Brief Story Description: The Stainless Steel Rat, a mastser thief and con artist, believes he has pulled off a successful bank job, but discovers that his heist is really an elaborate countersting to capture him.
KAMN Show #42: The Stainless Steel Rat : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2008
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The premise of this film intrigued me as it looked at a group of men getting involved in a heist from a slightly unusual angle, and so I decided to catch this at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year.
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In keeping with the film the whole heist is played very real and in keeping with each of the characters.
Filmstalker Review: La Raison du plus faible (The Right of the Weakest) 2006
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The premise of this film intrigued me as it looked at a group of men getting involved in a heist from a slightly unusual angle, and so I decided to catch this at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year.
Filmstalker Review: La Raison du plus faible (The Right of the Weakest) 2006
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