smash-and-grab

adjective

1. informal.
   of or relating to a robbery in which a shop window is broken and the contents removed

Example Sentences

More than 60% of voters polled cited “violent crimes that can result in serious injury or death,” “muggings or robberies on the street or in transit” and “smash and grab thefts at retail stores” among the areas of crime they’re concerned about.

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The criminal justice reform measure, which voters approved a decade ago, downgraded some felonies to misdemeanors and has been blamed for an increase in organized retail theft and “smash and grab” robberies.

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It’s not the first time that would-be thieves have tried to blow open an ATM for what they assumed would be a quick smash and grab, only to come away empty-handed.

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Just one-tenth of voters surveyed in the new Berkeley IGS poll said Gascón would do a better job addressing organized retail theft and “smash and grab” robberies — a hot-button issue in L.A., which has seen a rash of the brazen crimes in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times

The proposition has been at the center of a battle in the state Capitol this year as Republicans and law enforcement advocates call for the undoing of Democratic reform policies that downgraded some felonies to misdemeanors, which they blame for an increase in organized retail theft and “smash and grab” robberies.

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Related Words

• burglarize
• grab
• gut
• pillage
• plunder
• raid
• ransack
• rob
• snatch