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English

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Etymology

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Probably pronunciation variation ofhoist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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heist (countable anduncountable,pluralheists)

  1. Arobbery orburglary, especially from aninstitution such as abank ormuseum.
    • 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version:International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, inThe 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 ofheists in recent months.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Afictiongenre in which a heist iscentral to theplot; a work in such a genre.
    • 2002,Theatre Record, volume22, numbers10-18, page1177:
      It is a conventionalheist 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”, inRiverfront Times, volume32, number10, page28:
      The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's earlyheists.
    • 2014, Daryl Lee,The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page69:
      The crew resemble typicalheist characters[.]

Translations

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a robbery or burglary

Verb

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heist (third-person singular simple presentheists,present participleheisting,simple past and past participleheisted)

  1. (transitive) Tosteal,rob, orhold up (something).

Derived terms

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Translations

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to steal, rob or hold up something

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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heist

  1. pastparticiple ofheise

Old English

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Adjective

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hēist(Northumbrian)

  1. Alternative form ofhīehst
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