Meaning of hold-ups | Babel Free
Definitions
Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only
Equivalents
Italiano
autoreggenti
Examples
“Yet the conventions of cheating possess⟳ an odd kind of romance, of the love⟳ affair perpetually stalled in its first stages, when no one on the platform at Paddington knows you're only wearing hold-ups under your mac and you can briefly return⟳ to the drama of being the woman you thought had died of boredom somewhere on the thousand-and-eleventh trip⟳ to Waitrose.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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