Heist

heist







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h/ai/st



[Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; alter. of HOIST ]





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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    【美】【口】強奪;搶劫



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    搶劫,攔劫





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



heist (n., v.)   

 

A heist is a holdup, a robbery. The verb means“to perform such a holdup”; 



apparently it is a dialectal variant of hoist, in the sense of“to lift (someone's watch or wallet).”All uses of heist are slang.