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What is a stickup?

What is a stickup? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A robbery at gunpoint
  2. A small diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
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The dough mother is molded then again during an operation called stickup, which consists in softening it and in aerating it.
Rarely, however, have we embraced as rancid a pair of ne'er-do-wells as the bumbling Depression-era stickup artist Clyde Barrow and his girlfriend Bonnie Parker.
Anyone who becomes a junkie, crack dealer, or cellphone-stealing stickup artist is obviously bad at making life decisions.
In Nice, a jeweller who was the victim of a robbery shot one of the two stickup men as he rode away on a motor scooter.
He is also a junkie, so stoned that he brings yellow rubber gloves to the stickup, as if he and Frankie were washing dishes on the night shift.
At this point, Firth basically re-enacted the bank robbery scene, with the famous illegible stickup note.

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