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hols

American  
[holz] / hɒlz /

plural noun

  1. British Informal. Sometimes hol holiday.


hols British  
/ hɒlz /

plural noun

  1. slang:school holidays

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hols

By shortening


Example Sentences

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Thank you for the mystical stimulus over the hols!

From Scientific American ● Jan. 12, 2020

I’m currently in Oz on hols and haven’t heard anyone blame pitches or unfair clouds.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2015

A phrase such as "off piste" tells us how Harry spends his hols, but is coarsely unHoratian.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2013

With few funds for advertising, he hit on a marketing ploy of making sure Swedes could buy the beverage when they travelled south to the Mediterranean on their summer hols.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2013

“Firms only just back from the Christmas hols, that’s why. Still, Oxford’s hardly the ends of the earth, is it, Mrs. Rhydd? Be going up to see Dad soon, will we?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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