heist
/haɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.39 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months."
- "The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe."
- "In 1990, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, two men dressed as police officers pulled off the largest art heist in history, with 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts, and a Vermeer, that have never been found."
- "It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun."
- "The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists."
- "The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]"