Stickup (Noun)
Meaning
Robbery at gunpoint.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The store owner handed over all the cash in the register during the brazen stickup.
- A hooded gunman took three people hostage during a botched stickup attempt in Los Angeles.
- An employee narrowly escaped physical harm after surviving the gas station stickup Tuesday evening.
- Despite finding nothing valuable on them, the men at the ATMs endured two attempts in consecutive hours involving mugging/stickup circumstances Tuesday.
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