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Heist vs Jailbreak - What's the difference?

heist | jailbreak |

As verbs the difference between heist and jailbreak

is that heist is while jailbreak is to escape from prison.

As a noun jailbreak is

an escape from prison.

heist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
  • * '>citation
  • (slang) A heist film: a film whose plot centers around an attempted robbery.
  • * 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", '' volume 32 number 10, page 28,
  • The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To steal, rob or hold up (something).
  • Derived terms

    * heister

    Verb

    (head)
  • jailbreak

    English

    Noun

  • An escape from prison
  • Verb

  • To escape from prison.
  • To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software by using a USB or computer
  • Usage notes

    * The inflected forms of jailbreak are very rare for the sense "escape from prison".