heist

Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪst/

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• Rhymes: -aɪst

heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)

1. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
   • 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎:

     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. (countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
   • 2002, Theatre Record, page 1177:

     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.

   • 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, “Fast and Loose”, in Riverfront Times, volume 32, number 10, page 28:

     The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.

   • 2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:

     The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]

heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)

1. (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).

• Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, ithes, seith, shite, sithe

heist

1. past participle of heise