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sticks up
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim up toward |
| Synonyms: | erect, hump, perk up, pile, prick, raise, stack, stand erect, stand up, stick up |
| Notes: | the male crab or lobster is a cock; the female, a hen |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
| Main Entry: | mug |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold up |
| Synonyms: | assault, hold up, purse-snatch, rob, steal, stick up |
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
| Main Entry: | protrude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stick out |
| Synonyms: | beetle, bulge, butt out, come through, distend, extend, extrude, jut, jut out, obtrude, overhang, point, poke, pop, pouch, pout, project, shoot out, stand out, start, stick up, swell |
| Antonyms: | depress, sink |
| Main Entry: | rob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, deprive |
| Synonyms: | abscond, appropriate, bereave, break into, burglarize, burgle, cheat, con, cop, defalcate, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, do out of, embezzle, filch, heist, hijack, hold up, hustle, liberate, lift*, loot, lose, mug, oust, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, promote, purloin, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, roll*, sack, scrounge, snitch, stick up, strip, strong-arm, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withhold |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shoplift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | burglarize, carry off, defraud, embezzle, heist, hold up, lift*, loot, make off with, pilfer, pillage, pinch*, rip off, run off with, snatch*, stick up, swipe, take, walk off with |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | steal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take something without permission |
| Synonyms: | abduct, appropriate, blackmail, burglarize, carry off, cheat, cozen, defraud, despoil, divert, embezzle, heist, hold for ransom, hold up, housebreak, keep, kidnap, lift*, loot, make off with, misappropriate, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch*, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, purloin, ransack, remove, rifle, rip off, run off with, sack, shoplift, snitch, spirit away, stick up, strip, swindle, swipe, take, take possession of, thieve, walk off with, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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