hold-up

1. (colloquial)A delay or wait.

   What is the hold-up?

   Verzögerung, Stillstand, Stockung

2. (slang)A robbery at gunpoint.

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

   bewaffneter Raubüberfall

   грабёжgrabjóž, налётnaljót, разбойrazboj

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

4. (in the plural)Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.

5. The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.

6. (Nigeria)A traffic jam.

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