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her bidding.
hold-up n. 1 (armed) robbery, Colloq stick-up, mugging, US heist: The
robbers escaped with my gold watch in the hold-up. 2 delay,
set-back, hitch, snag, interruption, lacuna, gap, hiatus, break,
stoppage: The cause of the hold-up was an overturned van.
hole n. 1 cavity, pit, hollow, excavation, burrow, crater, cavern,
cave, recess, niche, nook, pocket, depression, indentation,
dent, impression: The snake disappeared into a hole in the
rock. 2 opening, aperture, orifice, perforation, puncture,
slit, slot, breach, rip, tear, rent, break, crack, fissure: The
water poured through a hole in the pipe. 3 hole in the wall,
shack, hut, shanty, slum, hovel; Slang dump, dive, joint: How
can anyone live in such a hole? She finally got a job dancing in
some hole downtown. 4 cell, prison, dungeon, donjon, keep, jail,
oubliette, brig, cage: When he refused to talk, they put him in
the hole for a week. 5 difficulty, trouble, dilemma,
predicament, situation, fix, corner, Colloq (tight) spot, hot
water, scrape, box, bind, pickle, catch-22, mess, muddle: She
really got herself into a hole with the tax man. 6 flaw,
shortcoming, inconsistency, fault, error, mistake, fallacy,
discrepancy, loophole: He never offers anything original but is
always ready to pick holes in any suggestion you make.
--v. 7 puncture, pierce, perforate: A floating log holed the
hull and the boat went down with all aboard.
holiday n. 1 time off, break, recess, respite, leave (of absence),
furlough, sabbatical, Chiefly US vacation: We spent our holiday
in Ibiza this year. 2 festival, feast, celebration, fˆte or
fete; gala, fair, red-letter day, event: Where are you going
over the Christmas holiday?
hollow adj. 1 vacant, empty, void, unfilled: A hollow space in the
wall concealed a secret passage. 2 sunken, concave, indented,
dented, sunken, recessed, depressed: Dust gathers in the hollow
places of the floor. 3 hungry, ravenous, starved, empty,
famished: I'm feeling hollow and should prefer to eat now, not
later. 4 insincere, false, hypocritical, sham, artificial,
counterfeit, feigned, fraudulent, spurious, deceitful,
mendacious, deceptive, cynical: Politicians campaigning for
office often make hollow promises they do not intend to keep. 5