holdup Значение & определение

Значение на holdup на български

• 0 a delay:

  • Come on, let's go. What's the holdup?

• 1 an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of violence:

  • In the holdup, a masked youth threatened the bank staff with a gun.

• 2 stockings (= light coverings for the legs and feet) that hold themselves up by a piece of sticky material or elastic at the top

• 3 a delay:

  • A likely reason for the holdup is political pressure from the fish-farming industry.

• 4 a crime in which a person or group demands money, using weapons and threats of violence:

  • Robbers got away with $1000 in a holdup of the bank.