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Robbery; cause of delay
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hold-up
Word definitions for hold-up in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
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.