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hols

American

[holz] / hɒlz /

plural noun

British Informal. Sometimes hol holiday.

hols British

/ hɒlz /

plural noun

slang:school holidays

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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

Media outlets detail the books that cultural figures are taking on their hols.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2018

And by now the farmer had gone on hols.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016

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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