Heist

Definitions

1. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.”

“The crew resemble⟳ typical heist characters[.]”

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