HOLD-UP: Meaning and related words

We found 13 dictionaries that define the word hold-up:

General (9 matching dictionaries)

hold-up: Merriam-Webster
hold-up, hold-up: Collins English Dictionary
Hold-Up, Hold-up, hold-up: Wordnik
hold-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hold-up: Wiktionary
Hold-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
hold-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Hold-up: Legal dictionary

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Hold-up: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

hold-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Hold-up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (colloquial) A delay or wait.
▸ noun:  (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
▸ noun:  (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
▸ noun:  (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
▸ noun:  (Nigeria) A traffic jam.

Similar:

holdup, hang-up, ahold, halting, hangup, hold, hiatus, hold-down, holder-up, hover, more...

Opposite:

delay, setback, hindrance, obstruction, interference

Types:

robbery, heist, stick-up, mugging, burglary, more...

Phrases:

Hold-up problem, more...

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