heist

See also: Heist

English edit

Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.

heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
- 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  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.
(countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
- 2002, Theatre Record, volume 22, numbers 10-18, page 1177:
  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.
- 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, “Fast and Loose”, in Riverfront Times, volume 32, number 10, page 28:
  The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
- 2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:
  The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]

a robbery or burglary

Bulgarian: кражба (bg) f (kražba), грабеж (bg) m (grabež)
Catalan: robatori (ca) m, atracament m
Czech: loupež (cs) f, krádež (cs) f
Dutch: roof (nl) m
Finnish: ryöstö (fi), keikka (fi) (slang)
French: braquage (fr) m (robbery), casse (fr) m (burglary)
Galician: roubo (gl) m, asalto m
Georgian: ძარცვა (ʒarcva)
German: Raub (de) m, Raubzug (de) m, Einbruch (de) m, Überfall (de) m
Hindi: चोरी (hi) f (corī), डाका (hi) m (ḍākā)
Italian: rapina (it) f
Malayalam: കൊള്ള (ml) (koḷḷa)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ran n, plyndring (no) m or f
Polish: skok (pl) m, napad (pl) m
Portuguese: roubo (pt) m, assalto (pt)
Romanian: jaf (ro) n, spargere (ro) f
Russian: ограбле́ние (ru) n (ograblénije), грабёж (ru) m (grabjóž), кра́жа (ru) f (kráža), похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije), воровство́ (ru) n (vorovstvó)
Slovak: krádež (sk) f, lúpež f, vykrádačka f (slang)
Spanish: robo (es) m, atraco (es) m
Swedish: stöt (sv) c, kupp (sv) c
Turkish: soygun (tr)
Urdu: چوری f (corī), ڈاکا m (ḍākā)

heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)

to steal, rob or hold up something

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