take-off n.3
(US Und.) an armed street robbery or mugging; also attrib.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Dealer 23: ‘If they really checked it out, I think they’d find that the crime rate, stickup-wise, takeoffs, is higher than it was’. | |
| Cop Team 78: Automatically such a person [i.e. displaying their cash] becomes a target for a ‘take-off.’. | |
| Snowblind (1978) 100: If [...] a take-off man comes at him and there are three kilos at stake – call it $150,000 – the take-off man is going to come in on the tail end of an M-16. |
In compounds
(US Und.) a robber, rapist or killer.
| Panic in Needle Park (1971) 42: Nick was a takeoff artist, and a good man to ignore. He supported his habit by taking off (robbing) connections, and almost anyone else in the junkie world who appeared to have money. | |
| Dealer 5: The gun is not for the cops. The gun is for the takeoff man in the street. | |
| Cop Team 78: The pair of suspected ‘take-off’ artists. |