Usually means: Grasping or obtaining something securely.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ahold: Merriam-Webster
  2. ahold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. ahold: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Ahold, ahold: Wordnik
  5. ahold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ahold: Wiktionary
  7. ahold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ahold: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ahold, ahold: Dictionary.com
  10. ahold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Ahold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Ahold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. ahold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Ahold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ahold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. ahold: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ahold: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. ahold: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahold: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahold: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ahold)

▸ adverb:  (nautical, obsolete) (of a ship) Brought to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea, and thereby held steady.
▸ noun:  (informal) A hold, grip, grasp.

Similar:
ahull, looard, loofward, shipward, luffward, astern, astarboard, abroach, hitherward, helder, more...

Opposite:
let go, release, drop

Types:
on, off, open, closed, in, out, up, down, on top of, underneath, more...

Phrases:
get ahold of, Ahold Delhaize, easiest to get ahold of, get ahold, take ahold, more...



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Similar:
ahull, looard, loofward, shipward, luffward, astern, astarboard, abroach, hitherward, helder, more...

Opposite:
let go, release, drop

Types:
on, off, open, closed, in, out, up, down, on top of, underneath, more...

Phrases:
get ahold of, Ahold Delhaize, easiest to get ahold of, get ahold, take ahold, more...



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