heist

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. countable,uncountable
    — The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
  2. A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre. countable,uncountable
    — It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.
动词 v.
  1. To steal, rob, or hold up (something). transitive

词形变化

heists plural heists present,singular,third-person heisting participle,present heisted participle,past heisted past

词汇关系

衍生词
cyberheist

词源

词源 1
Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.
词源 2
Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.
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