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• n  robbery at gunpoint

• Identification was made easier by the fact that the criminal was still wearing the mask he used during the stickup.
• Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup.
• At first the salesman looks suspicious but quickly decides that she's serious about buying (and that this isn't a stickup).

• armed robbery
• heist
• holdup

News & Articles

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• Two more arrested in stickup at motel
  Two more arrested in stickup at motel Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 7:24 pm, Saturday, June 15, 2013 Two more arrests were made in an April armed robbery at the Hampton Motel in this Washington County town, an incident that prompted the robbery victims to shoot at the robbers a day ...
  June 16, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Cash and crash
  A stickup artist who once knocked over five banks in a day finally ran out of luck yesterday when he was collared during a foot chase at the Lincoln Tunnel, law-enforcement sources said. Maverick Madore, 20, of New Hampshire allegedly attempted four new bank jobs in Manhattan and was arrested...
  June 14, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Matt Bartle in Kansas City Star
  It's called the state government stickup,said Sen. Matt Bartle, a Jackson County Republican, who likened the tax incentive proposal to extortion. "It's the same story year after year."
• Laura Miller in Dallas Morning News
  At the time, Mayor Laura Miller said he was playing a "stickup game with a toy gun."
• Jared Paul Stern in Seattle Times
  It is not a stickup,Stern said.