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Robbery; cause of delay
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hold-up
Word definitions for hold-up in dictionaries
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 ...
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.
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.