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View definitions for holds up

holds up

verb as in postpone

verb as in rob

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Back at the park, as we discuss the results of the US election, one man holds up four fingers.

From BBC

Over the next six months, sensors inside the satellite will help measure how well the wood holds up.

At one point, a school security guard holds up a Trump banner to raucous applause.

In one scene Beyoncé holds up a toy gun firing out a flag with the words "Vote!"

From Salon

He holds up another daughter’s law books, she was studying to be a lawyer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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