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to delay someone or something: Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (STEAL) to steal from someone using violence or the threat of violence: They held the same bank up twice in one week.
Synonyms for HELD UP: postponed, delayed, deferred, laid over, held over, held off (on), put off, put over; Antonyms of HELD UP: worked (on), decided (upon), dealt (with), did, acted, wrought (on), kept (on), carried on.
hold· up ˈhōld-ˌəp. variants or hold-up. plural holdups or hold-ups. Synonyms of holdup. 1. : delay. There was a holdup with my order. What's the holdup? [=what is the reason for the delay?] 2. : a robbery carried out at gunpoint. hold up. 2 of 2. verb. held up; holding up; holds up. transitive verb. 1. : to rob at gunpoint. 2. : delay, impede. 3.
hold-up noun (CRIME) [ C ] an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of violence. 打劫，暴力抢劫. In the hold-up, a masked youth threatened the bank staff with a gun. 在这一抢劫事件中，一个蒙面的年轻歹徒用枪威胁银行的职员。.
to use or present somebody/something as an example. She's always holding up her children as models of good behaviour. His ideas were held up to ridicule. hold up something. to steal from a bank, shop, etc. using a gun. Masked men held up a security van in South London yesterday. related noun hold-up.
If you hold someone up, or if you hold up something such as their behaviour, you make their behaviour known to other people, so that they can criticize or praise it. She said the picture that had appeared in a Sunday newspaper had held her up to ridicule.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English hold up phrasal verb 1 hold something ↔ up to support something and prevent it from falling down The roof is held up by massive stone pillars. 2 hold somebody/something ↔ up to delay someone or something Sorry I’m late – I was held up at work.
