stickup

IPA: stˈɪkʌp

A robbery at gunpoint.
A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.

Examples of "stickup" in Sentences

Hell, this nigga hung out with Gunz, a known stickup kid.
The stickup was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months.
Seriously, if you walk into a bank and say "this is a stickup," you go to jail.
June 21 edition of Fox News 'stated that BP had been the victim of a "political shakedown" and a "stickup" to force the company to fund the $20 billion "slush fund."
The pen he holds as a gun in the opening lines suggests Heaney is a kind of stickup man at first, taking aim at his father for doing undignified work, which Heaney must "look down" on.
The top U.S. official in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, disputed that Friday, saying police did not consider what she deemed witness accounts of the stickup, which were aired on Pakistani television in the days after the shooting.