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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

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

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian It's pretty quiet in Scotland this week – no doubt many are getting ready for Edinburgh and their summer hols.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2012

The summer hols are a prolonged period in which our children can find out who they really are and really be themselves – without the restrictive rules and regulations of school to confine them.

From The Guardian Jul. 23, 2011

"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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