What does armed robbery mean?

armed robbery means "robbery at gunpoint".

What is another word for armed robbery?

Close synonyms include heist, holdup, stickup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armed robbery a common word?

armed robbery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Armed robbery — meaning and 3 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
robbery at gunpoint
Synonymsheist holdup stickup
Broaderrobbery

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What does armed robbery mean?: armed robbery means "robbery at gunpoint".
What is another word for armed robbery?: Close synonyms include heist, holdup, stickup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is armed robbery a common word?

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