/haɪst/
OriginProbably pronunciation variation of hoist.
- countable, uncountableA robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
“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 ”
- countable, uncountableA fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
“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[.]”
- transitiveTo steal, rob, or hold up (something).
Formsheists(plural) · heists(present, singular, third-person) · heisting(participle, present) · heisted(participle, past) · heisted(past) · Heists(plural)