Sentence examples for stickup in from inspiring English sources
Joe meets Emma Gould in the midst of a stickup in 1926, with Prohibition in full swing.
The New Yorker, September 3, 1932 P. 35 Tells about a stickup in Paul's Bar.
By John O'Hara The New Yorker, September 3, 1932 P. 35 Tells about a stickup in Paul's Bar.
And McFadden acknowledged he couldn't remember ever arresting someone on suspicion of a stickup in his 39-year career. .
The group pulled off petty stickups in the elevators and parking lots of the sprawling Ivy Hill Park Apartments in the West Ward, according to interviews with relatives, friends and victims, who say the crew extorted people for quick cash, sometimes slipped through apartment doors cracked barely open by frightened residents.
Michael K. Williams played Omar Little, the righteous stickup man in "The Wire," and now plays Chalky White, the bootlegger on "Boardwalk Empire," so he is a big deal in the Brooklyn housing projects where he grew up.
For instance, Bonnie first sees Clyde when he is pinching a car; she slots herself into the passenger seat and stirs him to commit a silly stickup job in order to impress her, and only after he has jumped back into the car with the takings from the till do they introduce themselves to each other.
(A thieves' good luck charm, or something?) They run inside, pulling a classic put-the-money-in-the-bag stickup as Rosa's hands shake holding her gun -- clearly a novice.
There is a kind of American poetry in a stickup gang seen chasing across the bedraggled backdrop of the Depression (as true in its way as Nabokov's vision of Humbert Humbert and Lolita in the cross-country world of motels) — as if crime were the only activity in a country stupefied by poverty.
Elsewhere it's a plea for mercy (as in a stickup; there is a gun).
FANS of "The Wire", a television series set in Baltimore, will recall a scene in which Omar, a shotgun-wielding stickup artist, strides through an alley clad in a satin blue kimono in a futile effort to find his favourite breakfast cereal.
