Look up: hold-up

1. hold his stirrup
   Holding someone's stirrup to help them dismount from their horse was a polite way to greet a guest and show that he was welcome. For the lord or lady of a castle to do it (rather than a servant) was especially courteous and meant that the guest was an important one.
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2. Hold Me Up
   Hold Me Up is the third album by Buffalo, New York`s Goo Goo Dolls, released by Metal Blade Records in 1990. This is considered to be their true major label debut, as previous albums had been organized by the band themselves. It features their first single, "There You Are", which became their first music video as well. Some consider this album ...
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3. hold up
   [v] - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat 2. [v] - hold up something as an example
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4. hold up
   stick up verb rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
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5. hold up
   verb hold up something as an example; hold up one`s achievements for admiration
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6. Hold up
   [bridge] In the card game of contract bridge, to hold up means to play low to a trick lead by the opponents, losing it intentionally in order to sever their communication. The primary purpose is to give as many tricks to opponents as needed to exhaust all the cards in the suit from one of th...
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7. hold-up
   amount of material which,in the stationary state,is under treatment at a given time in an isotope separation plant or part thereof Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics) • the amount of material which,in the stationary state,is under treatment at a given tim...
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8. Hold-Up
   [film] Hold-Up is a Franco-Canadian crime comedy from 1985, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Alexandre Arcady. The screenplay by Arcady, Daniel Saint-Hamont and Francis Veber is based on the novel Quick Change by Jay Cronley. The novel was filmed again, as Quick Change, in 1990, w...
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9. holdup
   Any time period during which a certain proportion of the liquid introduced into the distillation apparatus is actually in the column or tower as reflux and rising vapor. Category: Management in the public and private sector
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10. holdup
    
    • robbery at gunpoint
    • the act of delaying
    
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