stick up
[verb]
Synonyms: rob, knock off, knock over, loot, plunder, ransack, relieve, rifle, rip off

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stick up phrasal verb (see also stick)

1. if a part of something sticks up, it is raised up or points upwards above a surface
stick up from/out of/through etc
Part of the boat was sticking up out of the water.

2. stick 'em up spoken informal used to tell someone to raise their hands when threatening them with a gun – used in films, stories etc

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ˈstick-up noun [countable]
informal a hold-up

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stick up
stick up (someone/something)
to steal from a person or place, using a weapon as a threat.
Some guy tried to stick up a coffee shop and got caught.

Related vocabulary: hold up someone/something

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stick up something
stick up (someone/something)
to steal from a person or place, using a weapon as a threat.
Some guy tried to stick up a coffee shop and got caught.

Related vocabulary: hold up someone/something

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stick something up
1. • stick (something) up
to attach something to a wall/post etc.
I plan to stick the poster up on our kitchen wall.

2. • stick up (someone or something)
to rob someone or something with a gun or other weapon
A man with a gun tried to stick up my mother when I was a child.

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stick up
1. • stick (something) up
to attach something to a wall/post etc.
I plan to stick the poster up on our kitchen wall.

2. • stick up (someone or something)
to rob someone or something with a gun or other weapon
A man with a gun tried to stick up my mother when I was a child.

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stick up
v., informal To rob with a gun.
When the messenger left the bank, a man jumped out of an alley and stuck him up.
Synonym: HOLD UP.
In the old West, outlaws sometimes stuck up the stagecoaches.

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stick up
n., informal A robbery by a man with a gun.
Mr. Smith was the victim of a stick-up last night.

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stick up someone
stick up (someone/something)
to steal from a person or place, using a weapon as a threat.
Some guy tried to stick up a coffee shop and got caught.

Related vocabulary: hold up someone/something

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stick up someone
• stick up (someone or something)
to rob someone or something with a gun or other weapon
A man with a gun tried to stick up my mother when I was a child.

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