Crossword clues for stakeout
stakeout
- Police action
- Plan to catch a criminal
- Watch, as a criminals' hiding spot
- Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across?
- Surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
- Police surveillance operation
Wiktionary
n. The act of watching a location and/or people, generally covertly.
WordNet
n. surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)
Wikipedia
Stakeout is a 1987 American crime-comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, and Forest Whitaker. The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf, who won a 1988 Edgar Award for his work. Although the story is set in Seattle, Washington, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. A sequel, Another Stakeout, followed in 1993. The movie later inspired a Malayalam language Indian movie Vandanam.
Stakeout is the name of two fictional characters from the Transformers. They are both heroic Autobots.
A stakeout is the hidden surveillance of a location or person for the purpose of gathering evidence
Stakeout or Stake Out may also refer to:
Usage examples of "stakeout".
If he could only call police department and ask them whether stakeout had been for just anybody, or the cops know he and Jocko were going hit the place.
Jack kept the trunk--and dipped into it for bennies to keep him juiced on all-night stakeouts.
They were heading for the Branch Davidian compound to get a look at the FBI stakeout, which had kicked off after a failed raid a week earlier on the "Ranch Apocalypse" resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians.
Last year I was on a stakeout, dressed up like a bag lady, and I got mugged.
He couldn't wait to compete with whatever toy the GC was using in its stakeout in Des Plaines.
He turned it down, having no balls for armed robbery stakeouts, going in doors gun first, gunboat diplomacy police work: meeting the Quentin bus at the depot, pistol-whipping hard boys into a docile parole.
The guy casually drops in through one of our stakeouts, rubs out at least seventeen of our citizens who are not-- not, remember--under indictment for any crimes--and then not only gets away clean but hangs around long enough to rescue one of our officers.
Then, when Gomez went incommunicado, I decided to go up to the valley and see if there was a stakeout.