stickupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Deverbal from stick up.

名詞

stickup (plural stickups)

1. A robbery at gunpoint.

   Synonyms: hold-up, armed robbery

   • 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.

   • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.22:

     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.

   • 2013, Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 146:

     One night, Sylvio talked about why drug dealers resist drug robbers during a stickup.

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.

参考

• stick up

アナグラム

• up stick, up-ticks, upticks

動詞

stick up (third-person singular simple present sticks up, present participle sticking up, simple past and past participle stuck up)

1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick,‎ up. To put or post up by sticking.

   Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint.

   I think they intend to stick up the bank.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.

   • 2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:

     Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects.

3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be prominent; to point upwards.

   No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.

4. (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of).

   Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.

5. (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
6. (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)

参考

• stick 'em up!
• stick up for
• stickup
• stuck up

アナグラム

• up stick, up-ticks, upticks