Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of hold-up
nounhold-ups pl (plural only)
- UKcolloquialpluralplural onlyWomen's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
1 more example
Yet the conventions of cheating possess an odd kind of romance, of the love affair perpetually stalled in its first stages, when no one on the platform at Paddington knows you're only wearing hold-ups under your mac and you can briefly return to the drama of being the woman you thought had died of boredom somewhere on the thousand-and-eleventh trip to Waitrose.
2007 July 8, Lisa Hilton, “I cheated...”, in The Observer
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 大腿襪 /大腿袜
- 大腿襪 /大腿袜 (dàtuǐwà)hold-up stockings
French dim up, bas autofixant
- dim uphold-up stockings
- bas autofixanthold-up stockings
Italian autoreggenti
- autoreggentihold-up stockings
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APA
hold-ups. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hold-ups
MLA
“hold-ups.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hold-ups. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hold-ups,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hold-ups.
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