hold-up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A delay or wait.

   “What is the hold-up?”

2. isim A robbery at gunpoint.

   “This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.”

3. isim The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.

   “This was another hand on which a holdup caused declarer to lose control and to go down in a sensational way: […]”

4. isim Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
5. isim The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.

   “And to the left is a portable gamma counter that tells us the holdup of plutonium recovery facilities.”

6. isim A traffic jam.