ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hold-ups

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hold-ups is a noun meaning plural of hold-up.

Meaning

plural of hold-up.

More Meanings

  1. (UK, colloquial) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.

Example Sentences

Yet the conventions of cheating possess an odd kind of romance, of the love affair perpetually stalled in its first stages, when no one on the platform at Paddington knows you're only wearing hold-ups under your mac and you can briefly return to the drama of being the woman you thought had died of boredom somewhere on the thousand-and-eleventh trip to Waitrose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backlogs, delays, holds, retentions, robberies, suspenders.

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