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HOLD UP definition: 1. to remain strong or successful: 2. to delay someone or something: 3. to steal from someone…. Learn more.
Learn the meanings and usage of the phrasal verb hold up and its related expressions, such as hold-up, hold up, and hold up. Find out how to distinguish between different contexts and meanings of hold up in British and American English.
to delay someone or something. 耽擱，延誤. Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. 那宗事故造成長達幾個小時的交通阻塞。 (STEAL) to steal from someone using violence or the threat of violence. 搶劫，打劫. They held the same bank up twice in one week. 他們一周之內搶劫同一家銀行兩次。 He was held up at gunpoint by a gang of masked youths. 他被一幫蒙面年輕人持槍搶劫。 hold something up.
Learn the meaning and usage of the phrasal verb hold up in different contexts, such as remaining strong, supporting, delaying, blocking, or stealing. See pictures, pronunciation, and related words for hold up.
Learn the noun and verb meanings of holdup, a word that can refer to a robbery, a delay, or a call for attention. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries.
HOLDUP definition: 1. a delay: 2. an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of…. Learn more.
verb. rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat. synonyms: stick up. see more. verb. continue to live through hardship or adversity. synonyms: endure, go, hold out, last, live, live on, survive. be, live. have life, be alive.
