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verb

Definition of stick up

as in to rob

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When Jane reemerges the next morning, her hair is completely out of whack with a tuft sticking up and the whole mane completely bedraggled. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 June 2026 One can stick up for female athletes and defend female sports without singling out and effectively mass cyberbullying a high school athlete. — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 31 May 2026

Noun

Man gets 5 years in Cedar Lake robbery A Gary man got 5 years in a plea deal earlier this month for a Cedar Lake stickup. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025 The stickup comes amid a nearly 23% drop in robberies in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct, which saw 135 robberies as of April 27 compared to 175 in the same time period last year, according to NYPD statistics. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for stick up

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Verb

The victim told deputies that two men threatened the victim with a firearm, robbed the victim and fled.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot in Union Square when a teenager allegedly attempted to rob him in 2024.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of rob

Noun

Service learned the holdup was due to the site in question also being considered a homeless encampment.

— Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Lee was convicted of fatally shooting Jimmy Ellis, 53, and Elaine Thompson, 44, during a pawn shop holdup in 1998 in Orrville, about 60 miles west of Montgomery.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of holdup

Verb

One tiny drop on the collar of a jighead will greatly diminish a fish’s ability to rip off the lure when short striking.

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
More telling is the Gators generated just six runs of at least 10 yards during back-to-back losses after ripping off 13 of them during two SEC wins.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

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Officials said Wooten is charged with burglary, resisting arrest and obstructing an officer.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
House Bill 2856, introduced by Shaffer, requires consideration of prior violent convictions, burglary convictions, other pending criminal charges and protection from abuse orders when a decision is made regarding bail.

— Josh Taylor, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of burglary

Verb

The offensive line held up Florida’s front had been on its heels against Missouri and South Carolina.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
Conflicting accounts from those in attendance say he was either held up by traffic or held against his will by male priests, friends of his, who locked him in his room to prevent him from attending.

— Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of hold up

Noun

Trump’s Arch will commemorate his overnight mugging of Venezuela and his colossal misadventures in Iran.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
It’s been 14 years since that mugging, and I haven’t been robbed since, despite traveling to more than 60 countries and moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

— Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2026

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As noted recently by Deadline, other Chinese AI models continue to plunder IP, including MiniMax H3, which generated videos that violated studio brand safety standards 55% of the time when an image was used in a prompt.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of plunder

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