hold-up
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hold-up
- /ˈhoʊldˌʌp/ US
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A deverbal from hold up.
noun hold-ups
- A delay or wait. What is the hold-up?
- A robbery at gunpoint. This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.
- The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. This was another hand on which a holdup caused declarer to lose control and to go down in a sensational way: […]
- Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
- The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant. And to the left is a portable gamma counter that tells us the holdup of plutonium recovery facilities.
- A traffic jam.
