(intransitive, informal) To wait or delay. / (transitive) To impede; detain. / (transitive) To support or lift. / (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.

(colloquial) A delay or wait. / A robbery at gunpoint. / (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.

plural of hold-up

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

To purport that (someone) is an example of (something, usually positive).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold up

present participle of hold up

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold up as

present participle of hold up as

(soccer, idiomatic) A play where an attacker retains possession of the ball, while the teammates can move up the field.