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the only crime where the plan is more famous than the loot
means A heist is a robbery, especially a large, carefully planned theft of money or valuables.
from Heist is American slang from around 1900, a respelling of 'hoist' — the idea being to lift or hoist away the goods. The shift in spelling captures the dialect pronunciation, and over time the heaved-up loot became the planned-out crime.
- origin
- slang twist on hoist, as in lifting goods
- biggest ever
- Iraq stole nearly $1 billion in 2003
- slow getaway
- Antwerp diamond thieves bypassed ten security layers
- movie math
- film robberies always need exactly one explosives guy
- cold case
- Gardner Museum art still missing since 1990
for instance
great train robbery — 1963 british mail train theft of £2.3 million by 15 robbers in buckinghamshire
ocean's 11 casino heist — 2001 las vegas fictional heist film that inspired real casino security concerns
antwerp diamond heist — 2003 belgian vault theft of $100 million in diamonds from the antwerp diamond center