hoist /hɔɪst/verb 7noun 5forms 4phrases 1 verb7 •To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).For tis the sport to haue the enginer / Hoist with his ovvne petar, an't shall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […] — 1599 •To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering. — 2011 •To be lifted up. •(slang) To steal.When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he? — 2006 •(slang) To rob.Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week! — 1948 •(historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him! — 1881 •To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization. noun5 •Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things. •The act of hoisting; a lift.Give me a hoist over that wall. •The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast. •The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level. •The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship. formshoisted · hoisting · hoisteth · hoists Phrases with hoist hoist by one's own petardHurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device intended for another; "blown up by one's own bomb".
