stickupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

stickup (複数形 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.

   • 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.

動詞

stick up (三人称単数 現在形 sticks up, 現在分詞 sticking up, 過去形および過去分詞形 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, 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.

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 または role)

参考

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

アナグラム

• up stick, up-ticks, upticks