hold-up

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈhoʊldˌʌp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A delay or wait. colloquial
    — What is the hold-up?
  2. A robbery at gunpoint. slang
    — This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.
  3. The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
    — This was another hand on which a holdup caused declarer to lose control and to go down in a sensational way: […]
  4. Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders. in-plural
  5. The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
    — And to the left is a portable gamma counter that tells us the holdup of plutonium recovery facilities.
  6. A traffic jam. Nigeria

词形变化

hold-ups plural

词源

A deverbal from hold up.
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