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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hold-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Trenton there was one last hold-up.
▪ Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun.
▪ It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.
▪ It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.
▪ People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.
▪ The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.
▪ There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.
Wiktionary
hold-up

n. 1 A delay or wait. 2 a robbery at gunpoint 3 (context in the plural English) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.

Wikipedia
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, with Bill Murray starring and co-directing.

Usage examples of "hold-up".

Stok and Harvey Newbegin are so friendly - did Stok save you from a violent end at the hands of the hold-up men?

She headed south for the s offices, through heavy traffic, cursing the hold-ups and 6 lights.

Streetlife keeping up a constant line of patter that, amongst other things, stopped Phaid from asking too many questions about how Streetlife had managed to slip from being a fairly successful city centre hustler to having to pull hold-ups in the twilight zone with a character like Digits.

He was not so innocent as to be totally shocked by what had happened: hold-ups and the occasional killing occurred regularly in banks, or so it seemed these days.

He fled the city following a hold-up but was returned and convicted of armed robbery.

I didn't know that Westchester required a doctor's certificate in a hold-up case.

The chance the hold-up gang could have been supplied with Sprovis firearms was remote far beyond probability.