Definition of "stick-up" [stick-up]

• A name for a certain member of a gang of burglars. Same as sticker-up, 3. See the quotation, and yeggman. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Charley Varrick (1972) - After a small-town bank heist leaves three people dead, including his girlfriend Nadine, small-time crook Charley Varrick (Matthau) hides out with his stick-up partner, Harman (Andrew Robinson), to count the loot."
• "Balancing precariously on a chair, arms to the sky like a stick-up victim"
• "The attention of other people make him happy, even when the attention comes in the form of a beating or a stick-up."