heist
noun/haɪst/
/haɪst/
(informal)- an act of stealing something valuable from a shop or bank synonym robbery
- a bank heist
- It’s a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong.
- a heist movie
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHeist is used before these nouns:- movie
- bank
- jewel
- jewellery
- …
Word Originmid 19th cent. (originally US): representing a local pronunciation of hoist.Definitions on the go
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