heist

See also: Heist

English

Etymology

Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪst/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪst
• Hyphenation: heist

Noun

heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)

1. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
   • 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
   • 2002, Theatre Record, volume 22, numbers 10-18, page 1177:

     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.

   • 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, “Fast and Loose”, in Riverfront Times, volume 32, number 10, page 28:

     The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.

   • 2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:

     The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]

Translations

a robbery or burglary

• Bulgarian: кражба (bg) f (kražba), грабеж (bg) m (grabež)
• Catalan: robatori (ca) m, atracament m
• Czech: loupež (cs) f, krádež (cs) f
• Dutch: roof (nl) m
• Finnish: ryöstö (fi), keikka (fi) (slang)
• French: braquage (fr) m (robbery), casse (fr) m (burglary)
• Galician: roubo (gl) m, asalto m
• Georgian: ძარცვა (ʒarcva)
• German: Raub (de) m, Raubzug (de) m, Einbruch (de) m, Überfall (de) m
• Hindi: चोरी (hi) f (corī), डाका (hi) m (ḍākā)
• Italian: rapina (it) f
• Malayalam: കൊള്ള (ml) (koḷḷa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ran n, plyndring (no) m or f

• Polish: skok (pl) m, napad (pl) m
• Portuguese: roubo (pt) m, assalto (pt)
• Romanian: jaf (ro) n, spargere (ro) f
• Russian: ограбле́ние (ru) n (ograblénije), грабёж (ru) m (grabjóž), кра́жа (ru) f (kráža), похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije), воровство́ (ru) n (vorovstvó)
• Slovak: krádež (sk) f, lúpež f, vykrádačka f (slang)
• Spanish: robo (es) m, atraco (es) m
• Swedish: stöt (sv) c, kupp (sv) c
• Turkish: soygun (tr)
• Urdu: چوری f (corī), ڈاکا m (ḍākā)

Verb

heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)

1. (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).

Derived terms

• heister

Translations

to steal, rob or hold up something

• Bulgarian: крада (bg) (krada), ограбвам (bg) (ograbvam)
• Catalan: robar (ca), atracar (ca)
• Czech: ukrást (cs) pf, uloupit pf
• Dutch: beroven (nl), roven (nl)
• Finnish: ryöstää (fi)
• French: voler (fr)
• Galician: asaltar, roubar (gl)
• German: rauben (de), stehlen (de)
• Malayalam: കൊള്ളയടിക്കുക (ml) (koḷḷayaṭikkuka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plyndre (no), rane

• Polish: rabować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: roubar (pt)
• Romanian: jefui (ro)
• Russian: красть (ru) impf (krastʹ), гра́бить (ru) impf (grábitʹ)
• Spanish: robar (es)

Further reading

• heist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• shite, Thiès, shiet, Heits, Hites, sheit, Sethi, sithe, seith, Thies

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

heist

1. past participle of heise

Old English

Adjective

hēist (Northumbrian)

1. Alternative form of hīehst