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
Media outlets detail the books that cultural figures are taking on their hols.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2018
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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