holdup
hohl duhp
- n robbery at gunpoint
- n the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- At first the holdup in a suburban Boston bank seemed commonplace enough.
- In 1981 two policemen and a security guard were killed in the botched holdup of a Brinks truck.
- Although she was convicted last year of stabbing a 71-year-old woman motel keeper to death with a screwdriver during a holdup, Foster now says, "I couldn't have done it.