stickup

Noun

stickup (plural stickups)

1. A robbery at gunpoint.
   • He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
   • The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22

   Synonyms:

   hold-up, armed robbery

2. A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
3. (slang) A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.