stickup

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Simon describes “The Wire,” in which Williams starred as the openly gay stickup man Omar Little, as “a careful critique of our drug prohibition and the human cost underlying those policies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns based the character on several stickup men they encountered on the streets of Baltimore when working as a reporter and homicide detective, respectively.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2021

Mr. Swain described Shipping & Transit’s strategy as “a stickup based on the cost of litigation. Our client had the guts to fight,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2018

Almost a decade after it finished, The Wire still stands as the pinnacle of the boxset era: Baltimore shaken down block by block, institution by institution, in a peerless 60-episode stickup of the American Dream.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2017

O'BRIEN Did you talk to Osvaldo after the stickup?

From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers