as in to steal
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep
a professional burglar was able to heist a box of jewelry from the safe in the closet
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Recent Examples of heist
Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
Like all of Brooklyn Nine Nine’s Halloween episodes, this one focuses on the annual heist at the precinct, which pits cop against cop in an attempt to obtain the championship belt.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
How can attempting to heist a sequence of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe not be fun?
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
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Noun
The heist remained a secret until it was declassified in 2019.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
Like all of Brooklyn Nine Nine’s Halloween episodes, this one focuses on the annual heist at the precinct, which pits cop against cop in an attempt to obtain the championship belt.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Verb
The movie chronicles the red sanders heist in the hills of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
How can attempting to heist a sequence of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe not be fun?
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
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“Heist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heist. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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