Noun
He pulled out a gun and shouted, “This is a stickup!”.
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Noun
Today’s stickup artist is after something else: smartphones.—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025 The victim later told cops several students were saying Aguirre bragged about the stickup.—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
Paul Clement, who has twice in his career courageously resigned rather than abandon his clients under external pressure, has stood up for this principle by defending firms against Trump’s onslaught, even when those firms never stuck up for him.—The Editors, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025 Daisy Edgar-Jones is sticking up for her 2022 movie Where the Crawdads Sing.—Sharareh Drury, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stickup
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