heist

heist
Synonyms and related words:
armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, boost, buoy up, burglary, caper, cast up, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, clout, commit robbery, cop, elevate, erect, escalate, extortion, filch, grab, heave, heft, heighten, highway robbery, hijack, hijacking, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, holdup, hook, jerk up, job, knock over, knock up, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, mug, mugging, nab, nail, nick, perk up, pinch, pocket picking, purse snatching, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rip off, rip-off, rise, rob, robbery, robbing, set up, sky, snitch, steal, stick up, stickup, stickup job, swipe, theft, throw up, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Heist — Heist …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Heist —   [hɛi̯st], Name von geographischen Objekten:    1) Heist aan Zee [ hɛi̯st aːn zeː], belgischer Seebad, Ortsteil von Knokke Heist.    2) Heist op den Berg [ hɛi̯st ɔp dɛn bɛrx], Gemeinde in der Provinz Antwerpen, Belgien, östlich von Mecheln, 36… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • heist´er — heist «hyst», verb, noun. Slang. –v.t., v.i. to rob or steal: »He d heist a round of his master s…whiskey and disguise the drainage (New Yorker). –n. a robbery or theft: »a payroll heist. ╂[alteration of hoist] –heist´er, noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • heist — [haıst] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: hoist] AmE informal an act of stealing something very valuable from a shop, bank etc = ↑robbery ▪ a jewelry heist >heist v [T] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • heist — heist·er; heist; …   English syllables

  • Heist. — Heist., bei naturwissenschaftlichen Namen Abkürzung für Lorenz Heister (s. d. 2) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • heist — [ haıst ] noun count INFORMAL an organized attempt by thieves to steal something: ROBBERY …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • heist — (v.) 1927 (in heister shoplifter, thief ), Amer.Eng. slang, probably a dialectal alteration of HOIST (Cf. hoist) lift, in sense of shoplift, also in older British slang to lift another on one s shoulders to help him break in. As a noun, from 1936 …   Etymology dictionary

  • heist — [n] burglary, robbery break in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, five finger discount, holdup, larceny, pilferage, rip off, stickup, sting, theft; concept 139 …   New thesaurus

  • heist — informal, chiefly N. Amer. ► NOUN ▪ a robbery. ► VERB ▪ steal. ORIGIN from a local pronunciation of HOIST(Cf. ↑hoister) …   English terms dictionary

  • heist — ☆ heist [hīst ] n. [< HOIST] Slang a robbery or holdup vt. 1. Slang to rob or steal 2. dial. var. of HOIST heister n …   English World dictionary

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