hold up
Definition of hold up
transitive verb
1 : to rob at gunpoint
3 : to call attention to : single out his work was held up to ridicule hold this up as perfection — The Times Literary Supplement (London)
intransitive verb
: to continue in the same condition without failing or losing effectiveness or force she's holding up under the strain music that holds up twenty years later
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Examples of hold up in a Sentence
held up mail delivery until we had a permanent address
traffic was held up for miles by the accident
First Known Use of hold up
1851
Law Dictionary
hold up
Legal Definition of hold up
: to make the victim of a holdup : rob at gunpoint
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