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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

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

heist

(esp US inf)

n → Raubüberfall m

vt → rauben

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

heist

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

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