ahold

[uh-hohld]

noun

1. Informal.,  a hold or grasp (often followed byof ).

   He took ahold of my arm. Grab ahold!

adverb

1. Nautical Archaic.,  close to the wind and on a single tack.

   to keep a vessel ahold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ahold¹

First recorded in 1600–10; a- ¹ + hold ¹ (noun)

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. get ahold of, hold.

Example Sentences

“Fentanyl is sort of like a loaded gun. If you leave a loaded gun in your house and it’s not locked up properly and you have children, and a child gets ahold of that loaded gun and shoots themselves, the parent should be responsible,” Hatami said in an interview with The Times this year.

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After taking ahold of the glowing circular object, his digital suit starts to form in a familiar silhouette.

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“You can’t get ahold of them,” she said of her firm, which has filed cases on behalf of hundreds of new plaintiffs since the settlement was finalized.

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He couldn’t get ahold of his insurance adjuster, so he searched for phone numbers of company executives.

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I think that introducing an essay into a system like this would actually make it be more prone to misuse, because there would be all kinds of ways of getting ahold of template essays that have been approved by prior applicants, going to ChatGPT, using who knows what.

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