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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stick-up
noun
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▪ Did executives of the Colorado Rockies pull a stick-up at the city treasury?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stick-up

also stickup, 1857, "a stand-up collar," from verbal phrase (attested from early 15c.), from stick (v.) + up (adv.). The verbal phrase in the sense of "rob someone at gunpoint" is from 1846, hence the noun in this sense (1887). Stick up for "defend" is attested from 1823.

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Stick-Up

"Stick-Up" is the 1971 follow up single to The Honey Cone's #1 pop and R&B hit " Want Ads". The song hit #1 on the R&B charts for two weeks and reached #11 on the Hot 100.

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