Reverse Dictionary: ROB – ROF

ROB, ROBBED, ROBBER, ROBBERY, ROBBING – ADJECTIVES
– AT THE CREEP engaged in stealthy robbery …1928 sl., orig. US
– DIPPING CLOUDY drunkard-robbing …1889 criminals’ sl.
– DIREPTITIOUS characterized by pillaging, plundering, or robbery …1532 obs.
– GOOD AS CAZ signifies that any projected fraud or robbery may be easily and certainly accomplished …1812 Amer. sl.
– HACKED of a place to be robbed: watched by a security guard …1914 Amer. sl.
– HARRIED plundered, robbed, pillaged …1844 Sc.
– HARRYING robbing, plundering …1898 Sc.
– HERRYING robbing, plundering …1898 Sc.
– ON THE CREEP engaged in stealthy robbery …1928 sl., orig. US
– ON THE GLAZE robbing jewellers’ shops after smashing the windows …L17 sl.
– PADDING practicing highway robbery …1672 obs.
– PINCHED TO THE BONE robbed of all …1757
– PREDATITIOUS adj. characterized by plundering, pillaging, or robbing; predatory …1659 obs.
– RATTED of people: robbed; of objects: stolen …1910s Aust. & NZ sl.
– REIF plundering, robbing …Bk1904 Sc.
– VULPECULATED robbed by a fox …1671 obs.
 
ROB etc. – NOUNS
– ALGERINING the act of prowling about with an intention to steal; robbery …1887 Eng. dial.
– AMATEUR HOUR in the context of bank-robbing: noon, when banks expected to be robbed …1950s US criminals’ sl.
– ARM the act of robbing someone by choking them from behind and thus rendering them immobile …1930s US criminals’ sl.
– ARM an armed robbery …1990s Black British sl.
– ARMED BEGGING ‘demanding money at pistol point, a hold up’ …M20 sl.
– AUTEM SNEAK the robbery of churches or chapels …E19 sl.
– BIT OF WORK a crime; a robbery …1996 UK sl.
– BLAG an act of robbery (with violence) …1885 Brit. sl.
– BONNY LAY highway robbery …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
– BOWMAN KEN a house considered worth robbing …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– BUMP robbery …1980s African-American sl.
– CARRY-AWAY a robbery in which a safe is taken and opened at leisure away from the crime scene …1958 US sl.
– DEAD CARGO the proceeds of a robbery that have turned out to be less valuable than hoped …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– DUCK an attractive target for a robbery …1965 US sl.
– EASY TOUCH a robbery that can be carried out without difficulty …1970s UK criminals’ sl.
– FAG-BAGGING a robbing or extorting money from homosexuals …1977 Amer. sl.
– FAKEMENT any act of robbery or swindling …19C sl.
– FAMILY PEOPLE the underworld of thieves, robbers …L18 cant
– FANCY-LAY any form of swindling or robbery …1910s UK criminals’ sl.
– FILCHING theft, thieving, robbery …M16 sl.
– GAFF a place chosen for a robbery …1930s UK criminals’ sl.
– GAROTTE highway robbery performed by throttling the victim …1852
– GAROTTING the practice of throttling a person for the purpose of robbing him …1858
– GARROTTE highway robbery performed by throttling the victim …1852
– GARROTTING the practice of throttling a person for the purpose of robbing him …1858
– HEIST a robbery or hold-up …1930 US sl.
– HERRIMENT the act of robbing or plundering …1787 Sc.
– HERRYING the act of robbing or plundering …1887 Sc.
– HIGH LAW highway robbery …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
– HIGH-PADDING highway robbery …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
– THE HIGH TOBY highway robbery by a mounted thief; also, the highway itself …1812 thieves’ sl.
– THE HIGH TOBY-SPICE robbery on horseback …c1812 thieves’ sl.
– HOT JOINT somewhere that is robbed while the owners are in occupation …1920s US tramps’ sl.
– HOT SLOUGH somewhere that is robbed while the owners are in occupation …1920s US tramps’ sl.
– HUSTLING robbery, esp. with violence …1823
– JOB a robbery; a criminal undertaking …1722 sl.
– KNOCK-OFF a robbery …1936 sl.
– LATROCINATION theft, robbery …1656 obs.
– LATROCINY highway-robbery; brigandage, freebooting, plundering …c1430 obs.
– LATROCINY a band of robbers …1474 obs.
– LATRONAGE robbery, brigandage …1619 obs. rare
– LIFT a theft or robbery …1845 Amer. sl.
– THE LOW TOBY robbery by footpads …1812 thieves’ sl.
– MACE a swindle, usually involving fraudulent offers of credit; confidence tricks; robbery by fraud …1742 sl.
– THE MAIN TOBY highway robbery by a mounted thief; also, the highway itself …1812 thieves’ sl.
– THE MARY ANN the robbery of drunkards by combined pickpocketing and suave talk; frequently the thief pretends to be a sexual pervert to throw off suspicion that he is feeling for the victim’s wallet …1942 US criminals’ sl.
– MILL LAY breaking and entering for the purpose of robbery …L17 sl.
– PAD highway robbery …M18 UK criminals’ sl.
– PADDING highway robbery …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
– PADDING working as a highway robber …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– PALMING the robbery of a shop by a pair of thieves, one engaging the shopkeeper in banter, the other committing the robbery …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
– PANEL GAME the robbing of a prostitute’s client by stealing his possessions while he is having sex …M19 sl.
– RAISE a robbery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAISE-UP an armed robbery or hold-up …1940s US criminals’ sl.
– RAMRAID a method of stealing from shops whereby the thief steals a car, uses it as a battering ram to gain entry into the shop-front, smashing it’s way through any defenses; the car is filled with loot, then driven away …1991 sl.
– RAM-RAIDING a method of robbery that utilizes a motor vehicle as a battering ram to gain entry, often using the vehicle to make off with stolen goods …1991 UK sl.
– RAPE the act of taking anything by force; violent seizure of goods, robbery …c1400 obs.
– RAPINE the act or practice of seizing and taking away by force the property of others; plunder, pillage, robbery …a1420
– RAPINES acts of violent robbery or pillage …1494 rare
– RAPT violent robbery, rapine …1641 obs. rare
– REAVERIE robbery, spoliation ..Bk1904 Sc. obs.
– RECRUITING SERVICE robbing on the highway …Bk1903 sl.
– REIF;  RIEF robbery, rapine, plunder …1791 Sc.
– RING money extorted by rogues on the highway or by gentlemen beggars …1785 sl.
– THE ROAD highway robbery …Bk1903 sl.
– RUSH a robbery in which several people violently force their way into the victim’s house …1785 sl. obs.
– SALT AND ROB assault and robbery …1946 S. Afr. sl.
– SCAMP highway robbery …M18 sl.
– SCORE a robbery; the proceeds of a robbery …1914 sl.
– SHIM a plastic strip used to thieves to force locks …1968 sl., chiefly US
– SHUTTER-RACKET a robbery committed by boring through a shutter, removing a pane of glass and reaching through for anything to steal …E19 sl.
– SLAP booty, the proceeds of a robbery …L18 sl., chiefly Anglo-Irish usage
– SNATCH a robbery …1930s Brit. sl.
– SNEEZE-LURK a style of robbing where a robber would blow snuff into a victim’s face …19C Brit. sl.
– STICK-UP an armed robbery …1887 sl., orig. Aust., now chiefly US
– STRIKING a robbery, swindle, picking a pocket, or imposition …1591 sl.
– TAKE  a theft, a robbery …1930s Aust. & US sl.
– TAKE-OFF an armed street robbery or mugging …1940s US criminals’ sl.
– THE TOBY the highway as the resort of robbers; also, highway robbery …1812 thieves’ sl.
– THE TOBY CONCERN highway robbery …19C thieves’ sl.
– THE TOBY LAY highway robbery …19C thieves’ sl.
– VAMP a robbery …M19 sl.
– WAGGON LAY waiting in the street to waylay and rob wagons …18C UK criminals’ sl.
 
ROB etc. – NOUNS, PERSON (also see HIGHWAYMAN, THIEF)
– ARM MAN a strong arm man; a highway robber; one who robs someone by choking them from behind, thus rendering them immobile …1930s US criminals’ sl.
– BANDITTO an outlawed person in Italy turned robber; a highwayman …Bk1708
– BANDOLERO a highwayman or robber …1832
– BANK BURSTER a bank robber who uses explosives to enter vaults and safes …1880 US criminals’ sl. obs.
– BANKER a bank robber …1933 US criminals’ sl.
– BANKIE a bank robber …1887 US criminals’ sl.
– BANK-MAN a bank robber …1901 US criminals’ sl. obs.
– BANK MOB a gang of bank robbers …1920 police sl.
– BANK SNATCHER a bank robber …1890 obs.
– BEARER-UP a robber who pulls his victim’s hat over the eyes to prevent identification or interference during a robbery …1910 criminals’ sl. obs.
– BENGAL LANCERS violent robbers who slash victims with Bengal razor blades embedded in corks …1931 Aust. criminals’ sl. 
– BLAGGER a robber or thief …1938 Brit. sl.
– BLAG MERCHANT a pay-roll robber …c1950 sl. 
– CHICKEN a victim of a robbery, kidnapping, confidence game, etc. …20C Amer. sl.
– CREEP a stealthy robber; a sneak thief; a prostitute who steals from her clients while they are asleep or unconscious …1914 sl., orig. US
– CREEPER a stealthy robber; a sneak thief; a prostitute who steals from her clients while they are asleep or unconscious …1906 sl., orig. US
– CUTPURSE one who steals by the method of cutting purses, a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles; hence, a pickpocket, a thief, a robber …1362
– DACOIT a member of a class of robbers in India and Burma, who plunder in armed bands …1810 Anglo-Indian
– DUFFER a person who, following some honest pursuit during the day, occasionally sallies forth at night to commit some house robbery …1872 US police sl.
– FACE a professional criminal, usually an armed robber with no territorial ambitions …1960s UK criminals’ sl.
– FAG-ROLLER a robber of homosexuals …1962 Amer. sl.
– FAWNGUEST one who robs or swindles another under the guise of friendship …1602 obs.
– GANG-ROBBER a member of a gang of robbers; a dacoit, one of a class of robbers in Indian and Burma who plunder in armed bands …1812
– GAROTTER one who garrottes, or throttles a person in order to rob him …1859
– GARROTTE-MAN one who performs a highway-robbery by throttling the victim …1862
– GAT GOOSE a hold-up man; an armed robber …1935 US criminals’ sl.
– GAZLIN a robber, a crook, a bandit …Bk1982 Jewish
– GENTLEMAN OF THE PAD a street-robber …c1820 sl.
– GHOUL a grave robber …1927 US sl.
– GILLIE WHEESEL a gypsy pickpocket; a robber …1818 Sc.
– HARRIER;  HARRYER a robber; a rifler of birds’ nests …1835 Sc.
– HEDGE BIRD a person born or brought up on or frequenting the roadside; a vagrant; a footpad
– HEISTER a housebreaker; a shoplifter, a pickpocket, a robber …1708 criminals’ sl.
– HEIST MAN a professional thief or hold-up man …1930s US criminals’ sl.
– INSIDE MAN someone involved in any of various special roles in a confidence trick or robbery …1935 US sl.
– JACK-BOY a street criminal who relies almost exclusively upon force and terror; a hold-up man; an armed robber …1989 US sl. 
– JACKER a street robber, a thief …2000s sl.
– JACKROLLER a criminal who specializes in robbing debilitated victims, i.e. the aged, drunkards, etc. …1922 Amer. criminals’ sl. 
– JUG HEAVY a criminal who specializes in robbing bank vaults and safes …1949 US sl.
– LADRONE a highwayman, pirate, robber, thief (main usage in books on Spain or Spanish America) …1832
– LAND-PIRATE one who robs on land; a highwayman …1609
– LARRONE a robber …a1300 obs.
– LATRON a robber, a brigand, a plunderer …1613 obs.
– LOW TOBYMAN a footpad …1811 thieves’ sl.
– LUSH DIP one who specializes in robbing sleeping or passed-out drunks, esp. in subways …1910s sl.
– LUSH DIVER one who specializes in robbing sleeping or passed-out drunks, esp. in subways …1910s sl.
– LUSHER one who specializes in robbing sleeping or passed-out drunks, esp. in subways …1910s sl.
– LUSH GRAFTER one who specializes in robbing sleeping or passed-out drunks, esp. in subways …1910s sl.
– LUSH-ROLLER a thief who robs drunken or unconscious persons …1919 criminal & police sl.
– LUSH-TOUCHER a thief who robs drunken or unconscious persons …1904 criminal & police sl.
– LUSH-WORKER a thief who robs drunken or unconscious persons …1908 Amer. criminal & police sl.
– MALANDRYN a highwayman; a robber …1460 obs. rare
– MOONMAN a person, esp. a criminal, who works at night; a robber, thief or highwayman who follows his vocation chiefly by moonlight …1632 obs. rare
– MORNING-GLORY BANDIT a nickname for a robber who robs a bank just before opening time …1955 
– MUGGER someone who commits robbery with violence in a public place …1865 sl.
– MUG-HUNTER a mugger who robs drunkards by night …1887
– PAD an armed robber; a highwayman; one who robs on foot …1652 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
– PADDER a footpad, a highwayman, a robber …1610
– QUEER BIRD a mendicant villain who, recently released from prison, returns to robbery, specializing in stealing horses …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
– QUIRE BIRD a mendicant villain who, recently released from prison, returns to robbery, specializing in stealing horses …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
– RABIATOR a violent, noisy, greedy person; a lout; a boor; a violent or ruthless bully; a robber; a spoiler; a plunderer…c1745 Sc.  rare
– RAMPSMAN someone who commits robbery with violence …1859 sl.
– RAM-RAIDER a perpetrator of ‘ram-raiding’ …1991 Brit. sl.
– RAPTOR a plunderer, a robber …1667 obs.
– REAVE a robber, a plunderer …1793 Sc. obs.
– REAVER a robber, a plunderer; esp. a border thief …1678 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RIPPER a robber …Bk1903 sl.
– ROB-ALTAR a sacrilegious plunderer …a1655 sl.
– SANDBAGGER a street robber, a ‘mugger’ …1882 US sl.
– SAND-MAN a footpad; a ‘mugger’ …1941 Aust. sl. 
– SHUTTER-RACKET WORKER a robber who specializes in the ‘shutter racket’ (see ‘robbery’ noun) …E19 sl.
– SNAPHANCE an armed robber or marauder; a freebooter or highwayman; a thief or desperate fellow …1538 obs.
– SNUDGE a thief who first enters a house, then hides, and emerges when the coast is clear to effect the robbery …1676 cant obs.
– STOOL-PIGEON an ‘inside man’ who takes a job to gain information about the proposed site of a robbery …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– STRIKER a robber who uses violence …1598 sl.
– TAKE-OFF ARTIST a successful robber, rapist, or killer …1966 US criminals’ sl.
– TAKER one who takes something from another by force or wrongfully; a robber, a thief, a plunderer, a pilferer …1500-20
– TAR FINGER a robber, because everything he touches sticks to his fingers …1925 US criminals’ sl.
– TOOLMAN a gun-carrying robber …2000s sl.
– VAMP a robber …1782 sl.
– WANDERING STAR a woman who coyly seduces men in the street in order to rob them …1837 UK sl.
– YEGG  a hold-up man, a robber with violence …1912 sl.
– YEGGER a hold-up man, a robber with violence …1921 US sl.
 
ROB etc. – NOUNS, PERSON WHO HAS BEEN ROBBED
– DACOITEE one robbed by a dacoit …1887
– SACABETE one that has been robbed …Bk1775
– SACABURTH one that has been robbed …Bk1775
– SAKEBERE † one that has been robbed of his goods …Bk1775
 
ROB etc. – PHRASES
– FAT’S A-RUNNING used to indicate that a loaded van is passing along the street and may be robbed, to the greatest extent, by opportunists …L19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
ROB etc. – VERBS
– BEAT to succeed in robbing; to rob …1859 Amer. sl.
– BENIM to rob, to deprive, to bereave …c890 obs.
– BENIM to rob, to spoil, to ravish …c1250 obs.
– BLAG to rob (with violence), to steal …1933 Brit. sl.
– BLITZ to break into a premises for burglary 1980s UK criminals’ sl.
– BOOST to steal, to shoplift, to rob …E20 US sl.
– BOX THE FOX to rob an orchard …1991 Irish sl.
– BUMP  to rob …1980s African-American sl.
– BUMP to deliberately drive into someone’s moving car for the purpose of stalling and robbing them …1990s African-American sl.
– BUMP AND GRAB to deliberately drive into someone’s moving car for the purpose of stalling and robbing them …1990s African-American sl.
– BURN to cheat or rob someone …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– BUST to break into and rob a place …1859 sl.
– BUZZ to rob a person, a by pickpocketing or purse-snatching …1789 criminals’ sl.
– CABBAGE to appropriate surreptitiously; to pilfer, to rob …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CASE to reconnoitre with a view to committing a robbery or other crime …1914 sl., orig. US
– CASE THE GAFF to inspect a place before robbing it …1929 sl., orig. US 
– CASE THE JOB to inspect a place before robbing it …1929 sl., orig. US 
– CASE THE JOINT to inspect a place before robbing it …1929 sl., orig. US 
– CASH ONE’S PISTOL to rob a bank at gunpoint …1880 US West. sl.
– CLIP to swindle; to rob, to steal …E20 sl., orig. US
– CLOCK to reconnoitre a place to be robbed …1978 Amer. criminals’ sl.
– COLLECT RENT to rob travellers on the  highway …Bk1903 cant
– DISTRESS of a gang: to carry out a robbery of a collection of people, as on the underground …1980s Black British sl.
– DO to burgle or rob a place …1774 sl.
– DO A PANNY to rob a house …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
– DRAG to rob vehicles …1970 UK sl.
– DRAW A DAMPER to take or rob a  money drawer or till …1848 US sl.
– DRUM to ring or knock on the door of a house to see if it is unoccupied before attempting a robbery; to reconnoitre with a view to committing a robbery …1933 Brit. sl.
– EASE to rob, to steal …E17 sl.
– EAT A FIG to commit burglary, to rob a house …M19 rhyming sl. for ‘crack a crib’
– FADE to hold up with a gun …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– FAG-BAG to beat up and rob a homosexual …1977 US sl.
– FAKE to steal or rob …1812 thieves’ sl. Hist Amer Sl.
– FAN to feel or touch the pocket of a victim for the presence of money or valuables; broadly, to rob in this manner …1847 Amer. criminals’ sl.
– FRAGGLE to rob, to despoil …1889 Amer. sl.
– FILCH to steal; to pilfer; rarely, to rob …M16 cant
– FLAP to rob; to swindle …Bk1893 thieves’ sl.
– GAROTTE;  GARROTTE to throttle a person in order to rob him …1858
– GIP to steal, to filch; to rob from …1918 Amer. sl.
– GO A-PADDING to rob on the highway …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– GO THROUGH to search and rob a person or place …1861 sl., orig. US
– GUT A HOUSE to empty a house of its furnishings; to rob it …17C criminals’ sl.
– GYP to steal, to filch; to rob from …1918 Amer. sl.
– GYPSY to steal, to filch; to rob from …1918 Amer. sl.
– HAG to rob, to take …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARROW to harry, to rob, to spoil …c1000
– HEAVE † to ‘lift’, to rob …1567 thieves’ cant
– HEIST to steal, rob, or hold up …1931 sl., orig. US
– HERRY to rob, to plunder, to pillage; used esp. of robbing birds’ nests …1677 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HOCUS to drug a person with a mixture of snuff and beer before robbing them …M19 sl.
– HOIST to steal or rob …1931 sl., orig. US
– IMP to deprive of, to rob …1790 Eng. dial.
– JACK UP to rob, to steal; to hold up …1971 Amer. dial.
– JIP to steal, to filch; to rob from …1918 Amer. sl.
– KEEP IN GAMMON to engage a person’s attention while a confederate is robbing him …1821 thieves’ sl.
– KICK IN to break into a building, room. safe, etc. …1926 US sl.
– KNOCK to rob, esp. a safe or till …1767 sl.
– KNOCK OFF to steal or rob …1919 sl.
– KNOCK OVER to rob; to burgle; to commit a planned crime of robbery …1928 US criminals’ sl.
– LATROCINATE to rob, to play the thief …1623 obs.
– LIFT to pick the pocket of someone; to rob …1526 sl.
– LIGHT-FINGER vb. to steal; to pilfer; to rob …1956 US sl.
– LUSH to rob a drunk …1910s sl.
– LUSH DIP to rob a drunk …1910s sl.
– LUSH-ROLL to rob drunkards …1957 US sl.
– MAKE A RAISE to pick a pocket; to rob …19C US criminals’ sl.
– MILL THE GLAZE to break a window, esp. as a means of entering a house …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– MUG to attack and rob someone …1864 sl.
– NAB THE REGULARS to take one’s usual share of a robbery’s proceeds …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
– NAP THE REGULARS to take one’s usual share of a robbery’s proceeds …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
– NICK to rob a bank, etc. …1829 sl. rare
– NIDDLE to overcome and rob …1824 Sc. obs.
– OFF to steal; to rob, usually with violence …1950s US criminals’ sl.
– PAD to rob on the highway; to be a footpad …1638 obs.
– PANEL to pursue the ‘panel game’ (the robbing of a prostitute’s client by stealing his possessions while he is having sex) …M19 sl.
– PICK UP to steal; to rob …1770 sl.
– PINCH to steal; to rob …1656 sl.
– PLY THE TOBY to practice highway robbery …19C thieves’ sl.
– PROWL to reconnoitre with a view to committing a robbery or other crime …1914 US sl.
– PULL to fleece, to rob. to cheat …LME obs.
– PULL DOWN to rob a place …1992 US sl.
– RAG to attack, to cause trouble; to rob …20C sl.
– RAME to steal, to rob, to plunder …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAMP to defraud or swindle; to rob; to force one to pay a pretended bet  …1812 UK sl.
– RAM-RAID to rob a premises, using a vehicle as a battering ram and driving it through a window or wall …1987 UK sl.
– RAPE to rob, to strip, to plunder a place …a1721 rare
– RAPINE to commit rapine; to plunder, to carry off as loot …1580 obs. rare
– RAT to search someone, their belongings, etc. for something to steal; to rob or pilfer surreptitiously …1919 sl., chiefly Aust. & NZ
– REAVE to rob, to steal, to plunder; to bereave of …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RIDE to rob on the highway …1605 sl.
– RIDE THE TOBY to practice highway robbery …19C thieves’ sl.
– RIP to search; to rummage, esp. with a view to plunder …c1388 sl.
– ROLL to rob someone, esp. someone who is asleep, drunk, or otherwise incapacitated …1873 sl.
– RUM-PAD to attack or rob on the highway …L19 cant
– SACK to rob, to steal; to take possession of, to pocket …L18 sl.
– SANDWICH to rob someone …1990 Trinidad and Tobago
– SAY to rob, to break into …1900 US criminals’ sl.
– SCALE to steal, to rob a person, to defraud …1910s Aust. & NZ sl.
– SCHIEST to rob …2000s US sl.
– SHAKE to steal goods; to rob a person …c1412 sl.
– SHIM to break open a lock using a ‘shim’ …1972 sl., chiefly US
– SMASH AND GRAB to hurt or kill someone, then rob them …1990s African-American sl.
– SNUFF to throw snuff into a victim’s face, rendering them temporarily blind and thus easier to rob …19C criminal sl.
– SPANK to rob someone …1976 US sl.
– STEAL SOMEONE BLIND to rob someone of everything …1976 US sl.
– STEAM to rush in a gang through a public place, train, etc. robbing anyone in one’s path …1987 Brit. sl.
– STICK UP to rob a place or person at gunpoint, knifepoint, etc. …1846 sl., orig. Aust.
– STRIP to rob or gut a house; to rob a person …c1696 sl.
– STRIP THE KEN to rob a house …c1696 sl.
– SUCK to draw money, information, or the like from a person; to rob a person or thing of its resources or support; to drain, to ‘bleed’ …1558
– TAB to survey a place prior to robbing it …1920s sl.
– TAB UP to survey a place prior to robbing it …1920s sl.
– TAKE to rob …1926 sl.
– TAKE DOWN to cheat, to swindle, to rob …M19 sl., orig. Aust.
– TAKE OFF to rob someone or burgle or hold up a place …1970 African-American sl.
– TAKE TO THE ROAD to turn highwayman, beggar, or tramp …Bk1903 sl.
– THIEF to steal, to rob; to commit theft …1838 Amer. dial.
– THIEVE to steal, to rob …a901
– TICKLE to rob or burgle …1945 sl., chiefly Aust. & NZ
– TICKLE THE PETER to rob a safe, till, or cashbox …1945 sl., chiefly Aust. & NZ
– TICKLE THE TILL to rob or embezzle …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– TIP THE GARROTTE to strangle and rob …1856 sl.
– TOBY to rob on the highway …1812 thieves’ sl.
– TURN A TRICK to commit a successful robbery …1865 US sl.
– TURN DOWN THE DAMPER to rob a cash drawer or till …1893 US sl.
– TURN OVER to ransack a place, usually in order to commit robbery, or searching a person …1859 sl.
– UNLOAD to take someone’s money or possessions …M18 sl.
– UNTHIMBLE to rob a man of his watch …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
 
ROBIN – NOUNS
– BOB-ROBIN the robin …Bk1911 Sc.
– FAREWELL-SUMMER the robin redbreast, Erithacus rubecula …1852 Eng. dial.
– REDDOCK the robin redbreast …1777 Eng. dial.
 
ROBOT – NOUNS
– BOOPER a robot …Bk1998 sl.
– BOT a robot …1969 orig. science fiction usage
– CYBERNAUT a robot; a cyborg …1965
 
ROBUST, ROBUSTNESS – ADJECTIVES
– BAWF well-grown, robust, fine, stout …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CORN-FED vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DERF strong, sturdy, stout, robust …c1340 obs.
– FULL OF GUTS vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GUTSBALL courageous, spirited, plucky; robust …1963 Amer. sl.
– GUTSY courageous, brave, spirited, plucky, robust …1890 Amer. sl.
– GUTTY courageous, brave, spirited, plucky, robust …1942 Amer. sl.
– HAIL free from injury, infirmity, or disease; sound, unhurt, safe; healthy, robust; hale …c1205 obs.
– HARD big, strong, robust, well-grown; full-grown …1825 Eng. dial.
– HARD AS NAILS vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HARDISH strong, robust, well-grown …1894 Eng. dial.
– HARDLY hardy, robust, strong …1845 Eng. dial.
– HEFTY vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LIKELY vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAMBASK robust …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
– RAMBUSK robust …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
– RAMBUST robust, vigorous …1825 Sc.
– RENCING strong; great, robust …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– ROBUSTIOUS of persons: robust, vigorous, violent; stout and strong or healthy-looking …a1548
– RUGGED vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STALWORTH of persons and animals: strong and stoutly built; sturdy, robust …c1175 obs. exc. arch.
– STRAPPING tall, robust, well-made …1678 sl.
– THRUNTY healthy, hardy; sturdy, robust, strong …1790 Eng. dial.
– VIKKEND stout, sturdy, robust, well-made; usually of a young man or boy …1929 Sc.
– WALLY of persons and animals: big and strong, robust, plump, buxom, thriving, sturdy …1722 Sc.
– WANTON robust, overflowing with health …1674 obs.
– WELL-FED vigorous; robust …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WIGHT strong, robust, mighty; exercising strength, energetic …ME, now arch., Sc., & Eng. dial.
 
ROBUST etc. – NOUNS
– HALENESS the quality or state of being hale; healthiness, robustness …1862
– LUSTIHOOD lustiness, vigour of body, robustness …1609 arch.
– VALIDITY the state of being physically strong or sound; robustness; strength …1578 obs.
 
ROBUST etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BELCH a very lusty, robust person …1825 Sc.
– STRAMULLION a strong, robust, masculine woman; a virago …B1900 Sc.
 
ROCK, ROCKY – ADJECTIVES
– HAGGLY rough; covered with rocks …1939 Amer. dial.
– QUICK of rock: natural, ‘living’ …c1475 obs.
– SASSINOUS rocky, stony …1632 obs.
– SCARRY bare, rocky; full of precipices …1844 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
ROCK etc. – NOUNS
– ALLEY APPLE a rock, stone, or piece of rubble found in an alley and used as a missile …1913 US sl.
– BANKS precipitous rocks or crags …Bk1898 Sc.
– BERG a rock …Bk1898 Sc.
– BO a submerged rock …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUGHOLE a small cavity in a rock …1946 Amer. dial.
– CARR a rock …c950 Eng. dial.
– COONDIE a stone or rock, esp. one a small stone suitable for throwing …1941 Aust. sl.
– GROUND APPLE a stone; a rock …1931 Amer. sl.
– HAG(G) a rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– INDIAN-HEAD a rock, stone, or boulder, esp. one dark in colour …1945 Amer. dial.
– INTERLAKE POTATO a rock …1987 Can. sl.
– LOVE LETTER a stone or rock thrown at someone …1940s African-American sl.
– NIGGERHEAD a rock, a stone, or boulder, esp. one dark in colour; a black boulder partially submerged in the water …1847 Amer. dial., derogatory
– OVEN cavernous holes in the rocks on the seashore …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– RAAB a fall of rock from a cliff face, an avalanche …1866 Sc.
– RATCHER a rock …1790 Eng. dial.
– SCAR a precipitous rocky place; a cliff; a low or submerged rock in the sea …1300 Brit.
– SCARTH a place cut off; a cliff; a rock, esp. a rock bare of vegetation …1876 Eng. dial.
– SCLIMPET a small thin piece of anything, as of rock …1825 Sc.
– SCOUT a high rock or hill; a projecting ridge; a precipice …1781 Eng. dial. obs.
– SKELLY a rock, a skerry …1513 Sc. rare
– SKERRY a rugged insulated sea-rock or stretch of rocks, covered by the sea at high water or in stormy weather; a reef …1612
– VACKEL a reef of rocks in the sea; a ‘skerry’ …Bk1905 Sc.
 
ROCK etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ROCK-HOG a labourer engaged in tunnelling through rock …1909 chiefly Can.
 
ROCK etc. – VERBS
– HAINCHIL to rock from side to side in walking …1825 Sc.
– HENCHIL to rock from side to side in walking …1825 Sc.
– RAAB of a mass of rocks: to fall from the face of a cliff …a1838 Sc.
– SHIG-SHOG to rock or vibrate; to walk in a jerky manner; to trot or amble in riding …1897 Eng. dial.
– TITUBATE to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll …1575 rare
– TOTTLE to totter, to rock; to cause to totter …c1820 Eng. dial.
 
ROCK CLIMBING – NOUNS, PERSON
– GAPER in rock climbing: a non-climber who watches climbers …Bk2006 Amer. sl.
– RADS in rock climbing: sport climbers …Bk2006 Amer. sl. 
 
ROCKIES, THE, ROCKY MOUNTAINS – NOUNS
– THE HUMP the Rockies …1920s US tramps’ sl.
– STONY MOUNTAINS the Rocky Mountains …1811 obs.
 
ROD – NOUNS
– BASTINADO a stick, staff, rod, cudgel, truncheon …1598
– GAD a rod or wand; a fishing rod; also, a stake or stout stick …1535 Eng. dial.
– TICKLE-TAIL a schoolmaster; a rod …1785 sl.
– TICKLE-TOBY a birch, a rod, a switch …1830
– VERGE a rod, wand, or stick …1897 rare
– WAND a rod, stick, or switch for chastisement …1297 obs.
– YARD a stick or rod used as an instrument for administering strokes by way of punishment or otherwise …c1000 obs.
 
RODEO – NOUNS
– BICYCLING among rodeo cowboys: the act, when riding a bucking horse, of scratching with first one foot and then the other in the manner of riding a bicycle …1941 Amer. dial.
– NANNY WHAMMING in rodeo: the joke event of goat tying …1987 Can. sl.
 
RODEO – VERBS
– DALLY in western Canadian rodeos: to loop the lariat around the saddle horn …1987 Can. sl.