holdup man

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   an armed thief

   Synonymsstickup man

   Broaderthief

   Narrowerhighjacker

Questions about holdup man

What does holdup man mean?

holdup man means "an armed thief".

What is another word for holdup man?

Close synonyms include stickup man. 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 holdup man a common word?

holdup man 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.