stick up
verb1
Idiomatic To rob at gunpoint.
- I think they intend to stick up the bank.
- What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
1 more example
- Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects.2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:
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Idiomatic To be prominent; to point upwards.
- No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.
3
With for To speak or act in defence (of).
- Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.
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With to To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
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With to To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.
- Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.
- Derived terms
- sticky-up, sticky-uppy
- Related terms
- stick 'em up!, stick up for, stickup, stuck up