holdup
noun
a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
holdups
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pluralof holdup.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, a federal grand jury in Boston indicted 10 Indian nationals for allegedly staging convenience-store holdups in Massachusetts and elsewhere to secure U visas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
The report attributed the limbo to a variety of possible factors including indecision over whether to stay or go, holdups with insurance and financial instability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Those officials blamed most of the holdups on the humanitarian groups for not having enough capacity to get food and medicine in.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2024
It would be a small delay compared to earlier holdups in the long-running case but could mean the verdict arrives around the two-year anniversary of the Beijing Games.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
"You'll have enough to do in this precinct to look after your own skin, and round up the street holdups, or get singed at a tenement fire."
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball
