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stand-over
noun
intimidation AUSTRALIA
Used attributively.- Her look-outs were much more scared of her than they were of encounters with hoodlums who tried to get her grog by stand-over methods. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 38, 1956
- Using stand-over tactics! — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 67, 1961
- She is sixteen and has a seven-month-old baby boy born of her illicit union with a known criminal gunman, hold-up man and stand-over expert. — James Holledge, The Call-girl in Australia, p. 50, 1964
- [S]tandover country[.] — D’Arcy Niland, Dead Men Running, p. 73, 1969
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