stickup

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
stickup
    n 1: robbery at gunpoint [syn: {armed robbery}, {heist},
         {holdup}, {stickup}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "stickup":
      armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry,
      bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, extortion, heist,
      highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, mugging, pocket picking,
      purse snatching, robbery, robbing, stickup job

    

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