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Heist

//haɪst// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    robbery at gunpoint wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    the act of stealing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To steal, rob, or hold up (something). transitive
  2. 2
    commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.

Etymology 2

Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.

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