heist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A robbery, especially a planned theft from a bank, museum, or similar institution.

   The film follows a crew planning a daring museum heist.

2. 2
   verb

   Informal: to steal something or rob a place.

   The gang planned to heist the jewels during the exhibition.

Probably a pronunciation variant of hoist, associated with the informal sense of lifting or stealing. Heist has /aɪ/ and haste has /eɪ/; they are not homophones. No precise first-use date is claimed here.

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