heists

Noun

heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)

1. 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
2. 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

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