| 单词 | sticking-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassticking-up sticking-up n. [after to stick up 9 at stick v.1 Phrasal verbs 1] originally Australian (now rare) the action of robbing a person, vehicle, or establishment at gunpoint; an instance of this, a stick-up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > armed armed robbery1791 sticking-up1852 stick-up1862 hold-up1878 1852 Sydney Morning Herald 23 Sept. Outrages are so common that there is no inducement to enlarge upon them... Simple ‘sticking up’ in the street is no longer a novelty. 1855 Argus (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 5/4 [Witness] said he was coming from Richmond on the night of the robbery, and saw a sticking-up case. 1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker I. 28 The sticking-up of the Goondi coach. 1905 Victoria (Austral.) Parl. Deb. 107 945/1 The very frequent references in the newspapers to the undetected robberies, housebreakings, burglaries, sticking-ups, and so on. 1964 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 7 Dec. 8/1 Accused of robbery..arising out of the sticking up of several men in the Ellenville office of a taxi company. < as lemmas |
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