stickup

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English stick updeverb. English stickup Deverbal from stick up.

1. A robbery at gunpoint.

   “He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.”

   “The news came on. There was relative calm in the world that night. Channel Nine had a convenience-store stickup in Lakewood, an environmental protest in Fort Collins.”

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.
3. A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.