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robbery
has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) larceny by threat of violence
Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)Those were his only interludes behind bars , although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922 , three for burglary and one for robbery . Unlike the Sicilians , he additionally conducted holdups , robberies , and safe cracking expeditions , and refused to touch prostitution . Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O_'_Banion gang 's seizure from a West_Side marshalling_yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $ 100000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition_era - the Sibley warehouse robbery , which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation . Related terms larceny armed_robbery rolling dacoity caper piracy highjacking highway_robbery heist rob |
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