Definitions for hold up
hold up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hold, support, sustain, hold upverb

   be the physical support of; carry the weight of

   "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"

2. hold upverb

   hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration

3. delay, detain, hold upverb

   cause to be slowed down or delayed

   "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"

4. hold up, stick upverb

   rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat

5. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold outverb

   continue to live through hardship or adversity

   "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

6. defy, withstand, hold, hold upverb

   resist or confront with resistance

   "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held"

7. stand up, hold up, hold waterverb

   resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.

   "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water"

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1. Hold upverb

   To rob, usually at gunpoint or knifepoint.

2. Hold upverb

   To delay; as, bad weather held up the satellite launch for two days.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hold upverb

   To wait or delay.

2. hold upverb

   To support or lift.

3. hold upverb

   To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.

4. hold upverb

   to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement

5. hold upverb

   to rob at gunpoint

6. hold upverb

   To impede; detain.

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1. Hold Up

   Hold Up is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her sixth studio album, Lemonade (2016). The song was serviced to rhythmic radios in the United States on August 16, 2016 as the third single from the album. It was written by Diplo, Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, Emile Haynie, Josh Tillman, MNEK and MeLo-X. The song contains a sample of "Can't Get Used to Losing You", written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman; an interpolation of "Maps", performed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and written by Brian Chase, Karen O and Nick Zinner; "Can't Get Used to Losing You" performed by Andy Williams and an interpolation of "Turn My Swag On", written by Soulja Boy, Antonio Randolph and Kevin McConnell. "Hold Up" received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 59th ceremony.

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1. hold up

   Hold up can have multiple meanings depending on the context: 1) To support or lift something; preventing it from falling. 2) To delay or obstruct. 3) To rob, especially at gunpoint. 4) To remain strong, sturdy, or durable. 5) To pause or stop to consider or pay attention to something.

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1. Hold up

   In the card game of contract bridge, to hold up means to play low to a trick led by the opponents, losing it intentionally in order to sever their communication. The primary purpose is to give as many tricks to opponents as needed to exhaust all the cards in the suit from one of their hands. If that hand regains the lead, it will not be able to put the partner on lead to cash its tricks. Hold up is one of basic techniques in play. While mechanically identical, a hold up is in a suit played by the opponents while a duck is a manoeuver in one's own suit. Nevertheless the terms are used interchangeably with duck or ducking more common.

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1. hold up

   Song lyrics by hold up -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by hold up on the Lyrics.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hold up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hold up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hold up in a Sentence

1. Chuck Carlson:

   The fact that it did hold up for the same reasons that it seemed to go down last week, that’s a victory, today was kind of a nice, perhaps, first brick in the bottom being put in place.

2. Fulton John Sheen:

   It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

3. Haley Brink:

   It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.

4. Eddie Gallagher:

   My first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me, but I quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment, i felt sorry for them that they thought it necessary to smear my name, but they never realized what the consequences of their lies would be. As upset as I was, the videos also gave me confidence because I knew that their lies would never hold up under real questioning and the jury would see through it. Their lies and( Naval Criminal Investigative Service's) refusal to ask hard questions or corroborate their stories strengthened my resolve to go to trial and clear my name.

5. French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron:

   We have a management today which no longer fulfills our objectives, which has an uncoordinated communication policy, and has fired on its own camp on several occasions, i have asked (French public investment bank and shareholder) BPI to cut the dividend several times. I think we haven't cut it enough. We're in a short-term logic whose goal is to hold up the share price, and that's not our priority.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hold up
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=hold up
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hold_Up
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_Up
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hold up