hold up — To wait or delay.
verb
- To wait or delay.
- Hold up a minute. I want to check something.
- To impede; detain.
- I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?
- What is holding up traffic?
- To impede; detain.
- The guy tried to hold up a bank.
- "Down, Dom!" he cried, "throw yourself down! Break in, Guido. Break in the door. We are held up!"
- To support or lift.
- Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.
- In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
- To support or lift.
- His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.
- held up for public ridicule
- To support or lift.
- I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.
- To persist.
- hold up to scrutiny
- hold up to heavy use
- To persist.
- For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal
- To persist.
- how're you holdin up?
- To persist.
- Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.
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