robbery

robbery
n
1. burglary, theft, Sl. heist, break-in; Inf. holdup, Sl. stickup, Sl. hustle, Inf. mugging, Sl. jumping, Sl. rolling.
2. thievery, pilferage, pilfering, Sl. swiping, Sl. hustling, Sl. copping; peculation, embezzlement, misappropriation; purse-snatching, shoplifting, palming, Sl. boosting; smuggling, bootlegging.
3. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering, Inf. (usu. of cattle) rustling.
4. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, pillage, depredation, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; ravaging, harrying, marauding, sacking, Rare. sackage, laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape.
5. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; (usu. of persons) abduction, kidnapping, Sl. snatch, capture, impressment, conscription, man-stealing, child-stealing; (all of animals) poaching, deerjack-ing, petnapping, dognapping.
6. expropriation, appropriation, arrogation, usurpation, accroachment, assumption.
7. plagiarism, copying, Inf. cribbing, Inf. lifting, pirating.
8. dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement; confiscation, impoundment.
9. swindle, fraud, flimflam, confidence game, Inf. gyp, Inf. ripoff, thimblerigging.

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