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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

When we made Beggars Banquet the next year, I felt like: ‘OK, hols are over, old boy, let’s get back to business.’

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

I commuted to a job in quality management, took out a pension plan and had ready-made hols in the Med.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2015

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

"That idiot Amanda," Hortensia said, "has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails. Silly thing to do."

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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