stick-up

• “Charley Varrick (1972) - After a small-town bank heist leaves three people dead, including his girlfriend Nadine, small-time crook Charley Varrick (Matthau) hides out with his stick-up partner, Harman (Andrew Robinson), to count the loot.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Missing Mr. Matthau

• “Balancing precariously on a chair, arms to the sky like a stick-up victim”

  Fictionaut: Batteries For Smoke Detectors

• “The attention of other people make him happy, even when the attention comes in the form of a beating or a stick-up.”

  The First Virtual I Hate Robert Altman Film Festival begins with a movie about a man who hates himself

• “The owners entered an alley with the players and said "this is a stick-up!”

  The Huffington Post: David Berri: NBA Owners to the Players: This Is a Stick-Up!

• “I'm sure many of you heard of the off-duty Brooklyn police officer who foiled a stick-up in her hair salon.”

  The Huffington Post: Bloomberg Mocks Charlie Sheen At HuffPost's Game Changers Event

• “Among them is Michael Kenneth Williams, who was born and raised in East Flatbush, and is best known for his unnerving portrayal of the gay stick-up man Omar Little on another HBO series, "The Wire.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Brooklyn, Having Some Fun on the Boardwalk

• “Williams, who is best known for playing The Wire's Omar, the stick-up boy with a strong moral code, will appear in at least three episodes.”

  Community Taps The Wire's Michael K. Williams to Teach Biology

• “If someone you know is in a stick-up crew, what would you do?”

  The Huffington Post: Elena Quintana: The Problem With Snitching

• “The $20 billion bank stick-up is a transparent attempt to pay some voters a thinly disguised election year bribe, while pretending the money didn't come from millions of middle-class families with a checking account, loan or credit card at an affected bank.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Washington's Robo-Signing Bank Heist

• “Another “stick-up kid” who has twenty years to think about the fact that the coat he stole will be out of style when he leaves prison.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raw Law

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