A Stick-up Job

Hi,
Yesterday he did a stick-up job.

Has anybody got an idea of what he did yesterday? I couldn't find the expression in the dictionaries. I have no clue.

He used a gun to rob someone.

eg He went into a store. He pulled out his gun. He said to the store-owner, 'Stick your hands up in the air'.
(= put your hands quickly up in the air)

Best wishe

Thank you Clive. You are so graet.

But listen, I did not tell the whole title of the article on purpose. The title is:

Stick-up job on torn bank notes leaves schoolgirls £1,200 richer

The whole article you can find here:

Hi again,

Yes, context is everything.

My dictionary has

stickup - noun, informal a robbery with a gun.

Clive

I think that a robbery is the only normal meaning for 'stick-up job'.

It's being used here in a headline for a joke (I don't know about in your country, but in the UK newpapers frequently use headlines that include jokes or puns, it's practically a competition between them to get the funniest one and the biggest groan from the reader).

It's being used as a pun, but not a very goo

nona the britI think that a robbery is the only normal meaning for 'stick-up job'.

It's being used as a pun, but not a very good one.

'stick up job' does not actually mean sticking things together.

I agree with you in all details.

Did you know that the Oxford (and Cambridge) English language experts used the mentioned new

I don't think it was in the textbook to explain the phrase 'stick-up job' though, was it? It's not wrong to use a phrase as a joke in a headline of a newspaper article. Presumably they expect intermediates to start grasping puns. It's good to learn all the ways that language is used.

nona the britI don't think it was in the textbook to explain the phrase 'stick-up job' though, was it?

You are right. The purpose was to tell an interesting story (with the distorted language though). Maybe we should write to the authors.
Thank you for you help anyway.

Sincerely,
Magixo

PS I was kidding about the Britts.

For the record, the abbreviation of "British" is "Brits" with only one "t".

The English are renowned for their puns. Bette

BTW I can recommend the "Discworld" books by Terry Pratchett. They are full of "plays on words".