hols
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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
Nourabad: No. Leila and Nadir: Then we are / Ready to die together / On these sun-drenched / Sun-kissed shores / Where one day / Loads of people / Will come / For their hols.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2010
A year after snapping up the Encore, I started a one-man punk band called Atomic Cyanide, hiding from the sun and the house music on our family hols to Ibiza.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2010
"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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