Synonyms for heist
- break-in
- caper
- holdup
- larceny
- theft
- crime
- pilferage
- rip-off
- stickup
- sting
- breaking and entering
- five-finger discount
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WORD ORIGIN
1927 (in heister "shoplifter, thief"), American English slang, probably a dialectal alteration of hoist "lift," in sense of "shoplift," also in older British slang "to lift another on one's shoulders to help him break in." As a noun, from 1936.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HEIST
burglary
nounstealing from residence, businesspurloin
verbstealrip off
verbrob; trickripped off
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