An instance of robbery; an act of theft. Also in extended use.

An act of rapine or robbery; a plundering, a pillaging. Usually in plural. Obsolete.

An instance of this.

close-breaking, burglary.

Chiefly Scottish. An act or instance of depredation or spoliation; a robbery. Obsolete.

Housebreaking (perhaps obsolete); shoplifting. Criminals' slang.

A robbery (see quots.). slang.

Cant. (See quot. 1811.) Obsolete. rare.

A robbery, theft; chiefly in to turn a trick, to commit a successful robbery or theft. U.S. slang.

A profit; an exceptional financial success; also, a robbery or its proceeds. slang (originally U.S.).

A hold-up, a robbery; also attributive and in other combinations. Also as v., to hold up, rob, steal. Cf. hist, v.2 1, hoist, v. 6 and hoist, n. 5.

slang. A robbery; concrete (see quot. 1963). on the knock-off: engaged in stealing.

A killing; a robbery. Also attributive, as hit list n. (a) a list of persons to be assassinated; (b) transferred a list or group of persons, etc…