Heist

Quick meaning: Heist is a noun meaning A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

Meaning

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
2. (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).

Example Sentences

The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]

The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.

It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.

In 1990, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, two men dressed as police officers pulled off the largest art heist in history, with 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts, and a Vermeer, that have never been found.

Word Forms

• heists
• heisting
• heisted

Synonyms for heist

Depending on context, synonyms include rip-off, burglarize, holdup, burgle, stickup.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stickup, burgle, burglarize, rip-off, holdup, robbery.

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