- heist
- I. transitive verb Etymology: variant of 1hoist Date: 1865 1. chiefly dialect hoist 2. a. to commit armed robbery on b. steal 1a II. noun Date: 1930 armed robbery ; holdup; also theft
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Heist — Heist … Wikipédia en Français
Heist — [hɛi̯st], Name von geographischen Objekten: 1) Heist aan Zee [ hɛi̯st aːn zeː], belgischer Seebad, Ortsteil von Knokke Heist. 2) Heist op den Berg [ hɛi̯st ɔp dɛn bɛrx], Gemeinde in der Provinz Antwerpen, Belgien, östlich von Mecheln, 36… … Universal-Lexikon
heist´er — heist «hyst», verb, noun. Slang. –v.t., v.i. to rob or steal: »He d heist a round of his master s…whiskey and disguise the drainage (New Yorker). –n. a robbery or theft: »a payroll heist. ╂[alteration of hoist] –heist´er, noun … Useful english dictionary
heist — [haıst] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: hoist] AmE informal an act of stealing something very valuable from a shop, bank etc = ↑robbery ▪ a jewelry heist >heist v [T] … Dictionary of contemporary English
heist — heist·er; heist; … English syllables
Heist. — Heist., bei naturwissenschaftlichen Namen Abkürzung für Lorenz Heister (s. d. 2) … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
heist — [ haıst ] noun count INFORMAL an organized attempt by thieves to steal something: ROBBERY … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
heist — (v.) 1927 (in heister shoplifter, thief ), Amer.Eng. slang, probably a dialectal alteration of HOIST (Cf. hoist) lift, in sense of shoplift, also in older British slang to lift another on one s shoulders to help him break in. As a noun, from 1936 … Etymology dictionary
heist — [n] burglary, robbery break in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, five finger discount, holdup, larceny, pilferage, rip off, stickup, sting, theft; concept 139 … New thesaurus
heist — informal, chiefly N. Amer. ► NOUN ▪ a robbery. ► VERB ▪ steal. ORIGIN from a local pronunciation of HOIST(Cf. ↑hoister) … English terms dictionary
heist — ☆ heist [hīst ] n. [< HOIST] Slang a robbery or holdup vt. 1. Slang to rob or steal 2. dial. var. of HOIST heister n … English World dictionary
