Heist
/haɪst/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. countable, uncountable
"The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months."
- 2 robbery at gunpoint wordnet
- 3 A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre. countable, uncountable
"It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun."
- 4 the act of stealing wordnet
Verb
- 1 To steal, rob, or hold up (something). transitive
- 2 commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The 2003 invasion of Iraq by American forces is the greatest heist of all time."
Etymology
Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.