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Heist

🔄 Synonyms of "Heist"

6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
rip-offnoun	(countable) A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
burglarizeverb	(ambitransitive, Canada, US) To commit burglary.
holdupnoun	Alternative form of hold-up. [(colloquial) A delay or wait.]
burgleverb	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary.
stickupnoun	A robbery at gunpoint.
armed robberynoun	(law) A theft where the thieves are armed with weapons.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
stickupnoun	A robbery at gunpoint.
burgleverb	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary.
burglarizeverb	(ambitransitive, Canada, US) To commit burglary.
armed robberynoun	(law) A theft where the thieves are armed with weapons.
rip-offnoun	(countable) A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
holdupnoun	Alternative form of hold-up. [(colloquial) A delay or wait.]
robberynoun	(crime) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
burglarynoun	The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
stolennoun	(US, MTE, MLE) Something which has been stolen.
theftnoun	The act of stealing property.
stealingnoun	(uncountable) The action of the verb to steal, theft.
break-innoun	The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
stealnoun	(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
breaknoun	An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
breakernoun	Something that breaks (something else).
breakingnoun	The act by which something is broken.
breakagenoun	The act of breaking.
strokenoun	An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
hold-upnoun	(slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
punchnoun	(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.