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HOLD UP definition: 1. to remain strong or successful: 2. to delay someone or something: 3. to steal from someone…. Learn more.
HOLDUP definition: 1. a delay: 2. an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of…. Learn more.
: to continue in the same condition without failing or losing effectiveness or force. she's holding up under the strain. music that holds up twenty years later. Synonyms. Noun.
A hold-up is a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables.
noun. a robbery, esp an armed one. a delay; stoppage. an excessive charge; extortion. usually plural a stocking that is held up by an elasticated top without suspenders.
ˈhold-up noun [ countable] 1 a situation that stops something from happening or making progress SYN delay traffic hold-ups on the highway Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time. 2 informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon SYN robbery a bank hold-up → hold up1 Examples from the Corpus hold-up • It came a...
1. to have in one's hand (s) or between one's hands. He was holding a knife; Hold that dish with both hands; He held the little boy's hand; He held the mouse by its tail. tener en las manos, agarrar, asir. 2. to have in a part, or between parts, of the body, or between parts of a tool etc.
A hold-up is a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables.
noun. /ˈhəʊld ʌp/ a situation in which something is prevented from happening for a short time synonym delay. What's the hold-up? We should finish by tonight, barring hold-ups. (British English) Sorry I'm late. There was a hold-up on the motorway. Topics Transport by car or lorry c2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Join us.
verb. (idiomatic) To wait or delay. What is holding up traffic? Hold up a minute. I want to check something. Wiktionary. To support or lift. Hold up the table while I slide this underneath. Wiktionary. (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive. Hold up to scrutiny. Hold up to heavy use. Wiktionary.
