单词 | stick-up man |
释义 | > as lemmasstick-up man General attributive in sense B. 3, as stick-up job, stick-up man, etc. ΚΠ 1905 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. 4/1 The man..is declared to be a typical ‘yeggman of the stick-up’ class. 1909 G. R. Chester Making of Bobby Burnet xiv. 169 Our local Hicks would rather be robbed by a lot of friendly stick-up artists. 1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 396 Assaulter, rough guy, hard bird..stick-up man, thug. 1930 E. W. Scott in Flynn's 6 Sept. 849/1 Eight stick-up Johnnies out of ten aren't so hot about coolin' a cop. 1935 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Jan. 63/3 A fast stick-up job without any foolishness about it, maybe leaving any parties we come across tied up good and tight. 1950 Times 7 Feb. 8/4 It was the story of a ‘stick-up’ plot being hatched. 1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder vii. 80 The old man got knocked off by a stickup guy at the filling station where he worked. 2009 Independent on Sunday 21 June (New Review) 37/4 She is..married to Donnie Andrews, a reformed murderer who was one of the inspirations for The Wire's fearsome stick-up man Omar. < as lemmas |
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