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
- (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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