heist
/haɪst/
heist noun: a robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
Noun
heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)
- A 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 spate of heists in recent months.2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2020
- The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022
- A 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.2002, Theatre Record, volume 22, numbers 10-18, page 1177
- The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, “Fast and Loose”, in Riverfront Times, volume 32, number 10, page 28
Verb
heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)
Proper noun capitalized: Heist
Heist (plural Heists)
- A surname.
heist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
heist in Hindi
- a robbery or burglary
- चोरी corī, डाका ḍākā
heist in Tamil
- திருட்டு, வழிப்பறி
heist in Urdu
- a robbery or burglary
- چوری corī, ڈاکا ḍākā
heist in Bengali
- কোনো প্রতিষ্ঠান যেমন ব্যাংক, জাদুঘর প্রভৃতিতে চুরি, ডাকাতি, চুরি করা, ডাকাতি করা
More languagesFewer languages
- heist in Malayalam
- കൊള്ള koḷḷa, കൊള്ളയടിക്കുക koḷḷayaṭikkuka
- heist in Kannada
- ದೋಚು, ಕೊಳ್ಳೆಹೊಡೆ
Examples of heist in a sentence
- Recollections from a hundred heist films interrupted, racing across his cinemaphile's brain.
- Two masked knifemen robbed a garage in Pat Heung in a brazen minute-long heist captured on security footage early Monday.
- There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist.
Forms of heist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | heists |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | heists |
| present participle | heisting |
| past participle | heisted |
| past | heisted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Heists |
Origin of heist
Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.
Words formed from heist
Words that rhyme with heist
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Questions about heist
- What does heist mean?
- Heist means a robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
- What is heist in Hindi?
- Heist in Hindi is चोरी (corī), डाका (ḍākā). See Heist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is heist?
- Heist can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce heist?
- Heist is pronounced /haɪst/.
- What is the plural of heist?
- The plural of heist is heists.
Words near heist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heist (page history and authors); Heist (page history and authors); heist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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