Definition of "stickup" [stickup]

• Slang A robbery, especially at gunpoint. (noun)

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• "The stickup was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months."
• "The pen he holds as a gun in the opening lines suggests Heaney is a kind of stickup man at first, taking aim at his father for doing undignified work, which Heaney must "look down" on."
• "June 21 edition of Fox News 'stated that BP had been the victim of a "political shakedown" and a "stickup" to force the company to fund the $20 billion "slush fund.""