Definitions for heists

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Spelling: [hahyst]
IPA: /haɪst/

Heists is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in heists (ehisst).

Definitions for heists

noun

  1. a robbery or holdup:

verb (used with object)

  1. to take unlawfully, especially in a robbery or holdup; steal:
  2. to rob or hold up.

Origin of heists

1925-30, Americanism; alteration of hoist

Examples for heists

Two gunmen pulled off a daylight heist in the Diamond District and evaded every single cop.

The game ended with a Portuguese heist, but it began with an American gift.

Here are a few books that sketch out the myths and realities of how to pull a heist.

Her latest novel, with screenwriter and author Lee Goldberg, is The heist.

So suspicion inevitably would have turned to Notarbartolo had he been free when the heist took place.

There is a heist motif running through the film and an amnesia motif and a noirish femme fatale motif too.

And when the Feds announced Monday that they had “new information” on the heist, no meaningful details were given.

Two writers find themselves in the unlikely role of protagonists in a heist thriller.

Asphalt Jungle is sometimes considered the first heist movie, but for me it all starts with Rififi.

“The actual day of the heist there is no way there were 33 [or 31] people involved,” Selby tells The Daily Beast.

Word Value for heists
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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