Meaning of hold-up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A delay or wait.
   colloquial
2. A robbery at gunpoint.
   slang
3. The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
4. Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
   in-plural
5. The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
6. A traffic jam.
   Nigeria

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Examples

“What is the hold-up?”

“The crossing caused serious congestion with long traffic hold-ups, and had been a bone of contention between the local authorities and the railway for over eighty years. It was controlled from Fletton Road Junction Signalbox (removed at the same time) and, until a wheel was installed in 1920, required two gatemen on each turn⟳ of duty.”

“This is a hold-up! Give⟳ us all your money.”

“They didn't get⟳ shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die⟳ summarily by some other act of God.”

“This was another hand on which a holdup caused declarer to lose⟳ control⟳ and to go down in a sensational way: […]”

“In a holdup, a player delays taking a trick⟳ until opponents' entries are reduced.”

“And to the left is a portable gamma counter that tells us the holdup of plutonium recovery facilities.”

“During process⟳ operations and temporary shutdown, the holdup within the facility is also known as the in-process inventory.”

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