What is "stickup"

Usage examples of "stickup".

A black-white stickup gang had been clouting markets and juke joints on West Adams, the white guy passing himself off as a member of Mickey Cohen's mob, coercing the proprietor into opening up the safe for the monthly protection payment while the negro guy looked around innocently, then hit the cash registers.

Everything is on one level, whether it be the latest fashion for evening gowns, a new battleship, a plague, a high explosive, an astronomic discovery, a bank run, a railroad wreck, a bull market, a hundredtoone shot, an execution, a stickup, an assassination, or what.

A short stickup man entered the store, held a gun on the manager, and told him in Spanish to give him the money in the register.

The stickup man, in his early twenties, was very nervous, and the gun danced in his shaking hand.

The stickup man put the bills in his pocket and backed toward the glass double doors.

The stickup man's gun was on top of the counter, wrapped in a plastic bag.

The addresses of the four new black-white stickups covered 26th and Gramercy to La Brea and Adams.

Then Simpkins came out of Big Q, the voodoo sex fantasy stuff became tepid reality, and the Voodoo Man himself went back to stickups, exploiting her connections to the white criminal world.

The rap sheet ended with notations from the San Francisco PD Intelligence Squad, stating that Nash was suspected of a dozen Bay Area stickups and was rumored to be one of the outside men behind the May '46 Alcatraz crash-out attempt.

Clemenza had not been unaware that Paulie Gatto supplemented his income with free-lance stickups, strictly against the Family rules, but even this was a sign of the man’s worth.

Bank robberies, train holdups, stagecoach stickups, rustling, you name it.

Not much happened except for the stickups, which occurred every second or third weekend.