heist

Speech parts

1. heist - Noun

2. heist - Verb

3. Heist - Proper noun

Meaning

robbery at gunpoint

commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling

the act of stealing

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

burgle holdup armed robbery burglarize burglarise stickup rob nick take prig lift raid steal theft stealing
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Antonyms

provide return create offer receive initiate
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Hypernyms

steal robbery rip rip off

Phrases with the word

grand heist major heist minor heist big heist bank heist heist compulsion

Anagrams

sithe shite Sethi

Examples

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. Steven Soderbergh

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job. Stanley Kubrick

Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven. Ally Carter

Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding? Dave Itzkoff

An ill-paying job is better than a lucrative heist. Russian Proverb

A criminal complaint filed last month alleges that Abbas and an unnamed person conspired to launder funds from a $14.7 million heist of a foreign financial institution in 2019. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Heiskell Heisler Heisner heist compulsion heist of the century Heistand