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What does hold-up mean?

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Noun
  1. (colloquial) A delay or wait.
  2. a robbery at gunpoint
  3. (plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
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But the little hold-up might have something to do with the money needed for the project.
The only hold-up we encountered was waiting quite a while to get drawings through from the architects.
Some 100 retailers were contacted for the purpose of the survey and asked if they always made insurance claims following a hold-up or break-in.
A man armed with a firearm and cutlass then stormed the house and announced a hold-up.
Caught in the middle of a hold-up at the store, Jack courageously disarms the gunman.
Police have not ruled out a connection between these two raids and a hold-up at a post office last Monday.

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