hold-up
Noun
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Noun
hold-up
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- What is the hold-up?
- a robbery at gunpoint
- This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
- (delay) cunctation, holdoff; see also Thesaurus:delay
- French: hold-up
- German: bewaffneter Raubüberfall
- Italian: rapina, rapina a mano armata
- Portuguese: latrocínio
- Russian: грабёж
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