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Noun: heist  hIst
Usage: informal
  1. Robbery at gunpoint
    "The bank heist was foiled by alert security guards";
    - armed robbery, holdup, stickup
     
  2. The act of stealing
    "The jewellery heist was meticulously planned";
    - rip-off [informal]
Verb: heist  hIst
Usage: informal
  1. Commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
    "The thieves heisted several homes in the neighbourhood";
    - burglarize [N. Amer], burglarise [Brit], burgle

Derived forms: heisted, heisting, heists

Type of: rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], robbery, steal

Encyclopedia: Heist, Germany