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noun stickups · stick-up

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

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@misc{stickup_2026,
  title = {stickup},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stickup},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}