Heist
noun
An act of stealing, especially a large amount of money, goods, jewels etc.
The police is trying to solve a $100 million diamond heist.
Often appears as...
- bank heist
- jewelry heist
verb
To steal, often in a dramatic or bold manner.
They planned to heist the bank during the holiday, when it would be less crowded.
Often appears as...
- heist a bank
- heist a museum
noun
An act of stealing, especially a large amount of money, goods, jewels etc.
The police is trying to solve a $100 million diamond heist.
Often appears as...
- bank heist
- jewelry heist
verb
To steal, often in a dramatic or bold manner.
They planned to heist the bank during the holiday, when it would be less crowded.
Often appears as...
- heist a bank
- heist a museum
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Crime
A heist usually involves careful planning, not a spontaneous theft.
The jewelry heist required months of preparation.
Pro Tip 2/3High Value
Heists typically target valuable objects or large sums of money.
They pulled off a heist, escaping with priceless paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Imagery
In movies, a heist often includes intricate tricks or disguises.
The movie portrayed a casino heist with elaborate schemes.
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Crime
A heist usually involves careful planning, not a spontaneous theft.
The jewelry heist required months of preparation.
Pro Tip 2/3High Value
Heists typically target valuable objects or large sums of money.
They pulled off a heist, escaping with priceless paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Imagery
In movies, a heist often includes intricate tricks or disguises.
The movie portrayed a casino heist with elaborate schemes.
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Crime
A heist usually involves careful planning, not a spontaneous theft.
The jewelry heist required months of preparation.
Pro Tip 2/3High Value
Heists typically target valuable objects or large sums of money.
They pulled off a heist, escaping with priceless paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Imagery
In movies, a heist often includes intricate tricks or disguises.
The movie portrayed a casino heist with elaborate schemes.
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
it's the cruet salt and pepper set. Quite nice in itself, they're little, sort of, airplane things. What's really, really sweet is every single person looking at these things has exactly the same mischievous thought, which is, "I reckon I can heist these." However, you pick them up and underneath,
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Special Investigation:...
investigators say a group of animal traffickers watched their late night tiger heist our sources tell us they were supposed to take unregistered tigers but they had before but instead investigators believe they took these three Tigers Tigers with names and a
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Can you solve the egg...
Imagine our thief only had one replica egg. She'd have a single To start by dropping it from the first floor and go up one by one until it breaks. Then she'd know that the floor below that is the one she needs to target for the real heist.
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
is right at the base of a morula tree she could spring up there in seconds and that is why they choose to to feed at the base of trees like that if they don't heist so that they can't escape if they need to they're very alert and see
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Why is the Mona Lisa so...
By the 20th century, the portrait was an iconic piece in one of the world’s most famous museums. But the “Mona Lisa” wasn’t yet a household name. It was Peruggia’s 1911 heist that helped it skyrocket to unprecedented fame.
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These animals are also...
we’ve seen in the case of Tripos, this chloroplast heist happened up to three times, giving rise to plastids with four membranes and the ocean’s most productive plants and forests.
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Ralph Langner: Cracking...
where during the heist, the observation camera is fed with prerecorded video. That's cool, huh? The idea here is obviously not only to fool the operators in the control room.
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Shootout in the Streets...
the United States Los Angeles the high incident bandits staged a well-planned bank heist in North Hollywood but in a
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Exposing Greed in the...
God's gonna trouble the water. "Water and Power-- A California Heist" is a feature-length documentary
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Raiding a Killer Bee...
They are stinging me. Our killer bee honey heist is at a critical stage.
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
it's the cruet salt and pepper set. Quite nice in itself, they're little, sort of, airplane things. What's really, really sweet is every single person looking at these things has exactly the same mischievous thought, which is, "I reckon I can heist these." However, you pick them up and underneath,
Video examples
Special Investigation:...
investigators say a group of animal traffickers watched their late night tiger heist our sources tell us they were supposed to take unregistered tigers but they had before but instead investigators believe they took these three Tigers Tigers with names and a
Video examples
Can you solve the egg...
Imagine our thief only had one replica egg. She'd have a single To start by dropping it from the first floor and go up one by one until it breaks. Then she'd know that the floor below that is the one she needs to target for the real heist.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
is right at the base of a morula tree she could spring up there in seconds and that is why they choose to to feed at the base of trees like that if they don't heist so that they can't escape if they need to they're very alert and see
Video examples
Why is the Mona Lisa so...
By the 20th century, the portrait was an iconic piece in one of the world’s most famous museums. But the “Mona Lisa” wasn’t yet a household name. It was Peruggia’s 1911 heist that helped it skyrocket to unprecedented fame.
Video examples
These animals are also...
we’ve seen in the case of Tripos, this chloroplast heist happened up to three times, giving rise to plastids with four membranes and the ocean’s most productive plants and forests.
Video examples
Ralph Langner: Cracking...
where during the heist, the observation camera is fed with prerecorded video. That's cool, huh? The idea here is obviously not only to fool the operators in the control room.
Video examples
Shootout in the Streets...
the United States Los Angeles the high incident bandits staged a well-planned bank heist in North Hollywood but in a
Video examples
Exposing Greed in the...
God's gonna trouble the water. "Water and Power-- A California Heist" is a feature-length documentary
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Raiding a Killer Bee...
They are stinging me. Our killer bee honey heist is at a critical stage.
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Quote examples
Greg van Eekhout
Writer
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
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Isla Fisher
Australian Actress
I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.
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Robert Harris
British Novelist
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.
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Morten Tyldum
Norwegian Director
As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.
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Misha Green
American Writer
The story of the Underground Railroad is a thriller. These are people who are basically in a heist movie, and it's the most precious cargo ever, your life. You're fighting for your freedom.
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Stanley Kubrick
American Director
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
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Steven Soderbergh
American Director
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
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Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.
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Peter Morgan
British Writer
In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.
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Jason Statham
British Actor
I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.
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Greg van Eekhout
Writer
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
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Isla Fisher
Australian Actress
I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.
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Robert Harris
British Novelist
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.
Quote examples
Morten Tyldum
Norwegian Director
As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.
Quote examples
Misha Green
American Writer
The story of the Underground Railroad is a thriller. These are people who are basically in a heist movie, and it's the most precious cargo ever, your life. You're fighting for your freedom.
Quote examples
Stanley Kubrick
American Director
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Quote examples
Steven Soderbergh
American Director
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
Quote examples
Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.
Quote examples
Peter Morgan
British Writer
In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.
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Jason Statham
British Actor
I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.
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