Usually means: Robbery using intimidation or force.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word stick up:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. stick up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stick up: Merriam-Webster
  3. stick-up, stick-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stick up: Vocabulary.com
  5. stick-up: Wordnik
  6. stick-up, stick up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stick up: Wiktionary
  8. stick-up, stick up: Dictionary.com
  9. stick up (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Stick-Up, Stick-Up, Stick Up, Stick up (disambiguation), Stick up, The Stick Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. stick up: Rhymezone
  12. stick up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. stick up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. stick-up, stick up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stick up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stick up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stick up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stick up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stick up, stick up, stick up, stick up, stick up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stick-up, stick up: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stick_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stick up)

verb:  (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To be prominent; to point upwards.
verb:  (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of).
verb:  (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
verb:  (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)

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