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stick-up
noun
[ ˈstɪkʌp ]
• an armed robbery in which a gun is used to threaten people.
• "I had strolled into a genuine stick-up"
stick up
• rob someone or something at gunpoint.
• "they had served time for sticking up a store in Akron, Ohio"
