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countable and uncountable, plural heists
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. quotations examples
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 ”, in The New York Times
(countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre. quotations examples
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
The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]
2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69
third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted
(transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something). examples