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stickups

stickups is the plural of stickup.

Meaning of 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
  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.

Questions about stickups

What is stickups the plural of?
Stickups is the plural of stickup.

Words near stickups in the dictionary

  1. sticktoitive
  2. sticktoitiveness
  3. stickum
  4. stickums
  5. stickup
  6. stickups
  7. stickwater
  8. stickweed
  9. stickweeds
  10. stickwoman
  11. stickwomen

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