stickup

See also: stick up and stick-up

English

Alternative forms

• stick-up

Etymology

Deverbal from stick up.

Noun

stickup (plural stickups)

1. A robbery at gunpoint.

   Synonyms: hold-up, armed robbery

   • 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.

   • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22:

     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.

   • 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:

     One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.

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. (slang) A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.

Translations

robbery at gun point — see hold-up,‎ armed robbery

See also

• stick up

Anagrams

• up stick, up-ticks, upticks