Dictionary

stickup en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from stick up.

Meanings

1. A robbery at gunpoint.
   • 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. 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22
   • He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator. 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
   • One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup. 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:
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.

Forms

Relateds

stick up

Synonyms

armed robbery · hold-up