Definitions
robbery at gunpoint
Word origin
Deverbal from stick up.
Used in a sentence
“He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.”
“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.”
“One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Armed robbery”7 letters
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