| 单词 | armed robber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarmed robber armed robber n. a person who commits a robbery while carrying a weapon, now esp. a firearm. ΚΠ 1691 W. King State Protestants of Ireland iii. 105 Nor did they attempt any thing upon the Armed Robbers..when invaded and assaulted by them. 1773 Morning Chron. 25 June Armed robbers, who..stop all waggons, stage coaches, post-chaises, horses, &c. and..take all the money they can find. 1889 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 546/2 I saw an armed robber standing on guard below. In a few minutes some more of the brigands burst into the room. 1989 K. Smith Inside Time i. 16 There is nothing romantic about prisons, or prisoners; nothing romantic at all about killers, rapists, bullies, pushers, strung-out druggies, [and] armed robbers. 2000 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 2 The terrifying moment when a masked armed robber, carrying a sawn off shotgun, robbed the Tile Hill Lane branch of Coventry Building Society. < as lemmas |
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