hold-up
ot noun
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A delay or wait.
What is the hold-up?
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A robbery at gunpoint.
This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.
- The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
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