Heist

Definition: Heist

Heist

Noun

1. (slang) the act of stealing.

2. Robbery at gunpoint.

Verb

1. Commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Heist

Heist and Seek (1974)

The Heist (1972)

Heist (2001)

The Heist (1999)

Adventure: Billion Dollar Heist (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cold Cash: The Perfect Heist (reference)

• Financial Truths for the 21st Century : Survive the Hype & Heist with Your Wallet Intact! (reference)

• The Boomerang Heist (reference)

• The Heist (reference)

• The Melon Heist and Other Stories: Tales from a Hoosier Boyhood (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Heist (reference)

• The Heist (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Da Heist (reference)

• Heist of the Century (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

German

stehlen (abstract, burgle, pilfer, rustle, scrump, steal, stolen (from), thieve, thieving, to cabbage, to steal), rauben (abduct, bereave, carry off, foray, maraud, pillage, plunder, ravish, Rob, steal), raubüberfall (foray, holdup, robbery). (various references)

Greek 

κλοπή (crib, larceny, piracy, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery), ληστεία (banditry, brigandage, hold up, mugging, piracy, robbery, stick up, thuggery). (various references)

Hungarian

zsákmány (booty, catch, chase, filch, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, quarry, salvage, spoil, takings), szajrézás (nick), szajré (swag), rablás (hit, pillage, plunder, plunderage, rapine, ravin, rip off, robbery, sack), lopott holmi (hot goods, pilferage, swag), lopás (filch, larcenous action, larceny, nick, pinch, snap, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery), betörés (breaking in, burglary, burgle, crack, incursion, invasion, theft). (various references)

Italian

rubare (abstract, lift, maraud, Nick, pinch, purloin, rape, rob, rustle, snatch, steal, stolen, swipe, take, thieve). (various references)

Pig Latin

eisthay.(various references)

Russian 

кража (larceny, lift, pinch, robbery, steal, theft, thievery), грабеж (depredation, despoilment, pillage, plunder, plunderage, ransack, rapine, ravin, robbery). (various references)

Spanish

hurtar (crib, encroach on, purloin, rob, rustle, steal, thieve). (various references)

Thai

การปล้น (คำสแลง). (various references)

Turkish

hırsızlık yapmak (break into, Rob, steal, thieve), hırsızlık (burglary, hijack, hijacking, larceny, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, steal, theft, thievery), soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), soygun yapmak (pull a job, Rob), soygun (despoilment, pillage, rip off, robbery), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "heist": heisted, heister, heisters, heisting, heists. (additional references)

Words ending with "heist": atheist, ditheist, henotheist, monotheist, nontheist, pantheist, polytheist, theist, tritheist. (additional references)

Words containing "heist": atheistic, atheistical, atheistically, atheists, ditheists, henotheistic, henotheists, monotheistic, monotheistical, monotheistically, monotheists, nontheistic, nontheists, pantheistic, pantheistical, pantheistically, pantheists, polytheistic, polytheistical, polytheists, theistic, theistical, theistically, theists, tritheistic, tritheistical, tritheists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Heist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cheist, ehilst, eist, geist, Gheest, haast, hairst, haist, heast, hecst, heiet, heiht, heis, heiss, heisst, heit, heite, Heitz, heiwt, heiz, hemish, hemst, herst, hesi, hesot, Heysi, heyt, hies, hiest, hiet, Hiett, hisst, hizt, Hristo, meist, neist, Rheydt, sesit, sheist, zeist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eths, hest, hets, hies, hist, hits, site, sith, this, ties.

-2 letters: eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, its, sei, set, she, sit, the, tie, tis.

-3 letters: eh, es, et, he, hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: eights, ethics, fetish, heists, histed, itches, kithes, saithe, shiest, swithe, theins, theirs, theism, theist, thesis, tithes, tushie, whites, withes.

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