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heist

(hīst) Slang

tr.v. heist·ed, heist·ing, heists

1. To steal: heisted the collection of jewels from the museum.

2. To hold up; rob.

A robbery; a burglary.

[Alteration of hoist.]

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heist

(haɪst)

a robbery

(tr) to steal or burgle

[variant of hoist]

ˈheister n

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heist

(haɪst)

n., v. heist•ed, heist•ing. Slang. n.

1. a robbery or holdup.

v.t.

2. to take unlawfully, esp. in a robbery or holdup; steal.

3. to rob or hold up.

[1925–30, Amer.; alter. of hoist]

heist′er, n.

heist

Past participle: heisted
Gerund: heisting

Imperative
heist
heist

Present
I heist
you heist
he/she/it heists
we heist
you heist
they heist

Preterite
I heisted
you heisted
he/she/it heisted
we heisted
you heisted
they heisted

Present Continuous
I am heisting
you are heisting
he/she/it is heisting
we are heisting
you are heisting
they are heisting

Present Perfect
I have heisted
you have heisted
he/she/it has heisted
we have heisted
you have heisted
they have heisted

Past Continuous
I was heisting
you were heisting
he/she/it was heisting
we were heisting
you were heisting
they were heisting

Past Perfect
I had heisted
you had heisted
he/she/it had heisted
we had heisted
you had heisted
they had heisted

Future
I will heist
you will heist
he/she/it will heist
we will heist
you will heist
they will heist

Future Perfect
I will have heisted
you will have heisted
he/she/it will have heisted
we will have heisted
you will have heisted
they will have heisted

Future Continuous
I will be heisting
you will be heisting
he/she/it will be heisting
we will be heisting
you will be heisting
they will be heisting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been heisting
you have been heisting
he/she/it has been heisting
we have been heisting
you have been heisting
they have been heisting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been heisting
you will have been heisting
he/she/it will have been heisting
we will have been heisting
you will have been heisting
they will have been heisting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been heisting
you had been heisting
he/she/it had been heisting
we had been heisting
you had been heisting
they had been heisting

Conditional
I would heist
you would heist
he/she/it would heist
we would heist
you would heist
they would heist

Past Conditional
I would have heisted
you would have heisted
he/she/it would have heisted
we would have heisted
you would have heisted
they would have heisted

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Noun	1.	heist - the act of stealing rip-off robbery - larceny by threat of violence jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
	2.	heist - robbery at gunpoint armed robbery, holdup, stickup robbery - larceny by threat of violence
Verb	1.	heist - commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling burglarise, burglarize, burgle steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

heist

verb

1. Slang. To take (another's property) without permission:

filch, pilfer, purloin, snatch, steal, thieve.

Informal: lift, swipe.

Slang: cop, hook, nip, pinch, rip off, snitch.

Idiom: make off with.

2. Slang. To take property or possessions from (a person or company, for example) unlawfully and usually forcibly:

hold up, rob, stick up.

Slang: knock off.

noun

Slang. The act or crime of taking another's property unlawfully and by force:

holdup, robbery.

Slang: stickup.

Translations

rubare

kraak

heist

[haɪst]

A. N (= hold-up) → atraco m a mano armada

B. VT → robar a mano armada

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

heist

[ˈhaɪst] n (mainly US) (= hold-up) → casse m

heist

(esp US inf)

n → Raubüberfall m

vt → rauben

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heist

[haɪst] n (Am) (fam) (hold-up) → rapina

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The hip-heist is accomplished (by the defender) by placing all his weight on his free (right) hand and his free (left) foot, heisting his hip off the mat and then kicking his trapped leg back to the safer position shown.