STICKUP MAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An armed thief

Synonyms:

holdup man; stickup man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stickup man" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stickup man"):

highjacker; highwayman; hijacker; road agent (a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it)