holdup man
Example Sentences
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Friday offers two Hitchcocks: In “Rope,” Mr. Stewart is the voice of moral reason while foiling Leopold-and-Loeb-like killers; in “The Wrong Man,” Mr. Fonda plays a jazz musician mistaken for a holdup man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
But a Baltimore jury acquitted him last month, forcing frustrated Judge Joseph L. Carter, as he put it, to "foist a professional holdup man on the public."
From Time Magazine Archive
When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond avoids compromising Irene Vail by posing as a holdup man, seizing Irene's jewels, kidnapping her so that he can return them.
From Time Magazine Archive
So she pardoned three prisoners, including a holdup man sentenced to up to life for stealing $28.
From Time Magazine Archive
You acted as if you thought I might be a holdup man.
From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
