See Also: hold-down(dictionary)
hold(2)(dictionary)
hold(1)(dictionary)
YAU LEE HOLD(finance)
WAI KEE HOLD(finance)
KIN Y AT HOLD(finance)
MIN XIN HOLD(finance)
Hold(medicine)
Buy and Hold(money)
Hold(money)

rozzer (iou) and hold(1) (iou)


rozzer (iou)



rozzer noun. slang. L19.
[Origin unkn.]
A police officer, a detective.

hold(1) (iou)



hold noun1. See also HOLT noun2. OE.
[Partly from HOLD verb, partly from Old Norse hald hold, support, custody.]
I.
a. The action or fact of keeping or guarding; occupation, possession; rule. OE-L16.
b. Tenure. (Earlier in senses of COPYHOLD, FREEHOLD.) obsolete exc. dial. M17.
The action or an act of keeping something in one's hand or grasping; grasp (lit. & fig.), a controlling influence. Also, an opportunity of holding, something to hold by. ME.
catch hold of: see CATCH verb. get hold of (a) take into one's grasp (lit. & fig.); (b) get possession of, obtain; (c) get into contact with (a person). lay hold of, lay hold on: see LAY verb1. take hold (a) take hold of, take into one's grasp; (b) (of a custom or habit) become established.
L. Stephen The hold was generally firm when the fissures were not filled with ice. L. Gordon Leslie Stephen's hold on his..daughter's imagination was the result..of the Education he gave her. A. McCowen My father..tried to break the Conservative hold on the Royal Borough.
b. spec. A manner of holding in wrestling etc. E18.
no holds barred, with no holds barred (with) no restrictions, all methods being permitted.
Confinement, custody, imprisonment. Long arch. rare. ME.
J. Bramhall Father Oldcorne being in hold for the powder treason.
a. Retention, restraint. ME-L17.
Henry More And this is a good hold to the Church from relapsing into Heathenism again.
b. A delay, a pause, a postponement. M20.
New Scientist Unless there has been a last-minute 'hold'..the first..Mariner spacecraft should..be on its way.
c. A facility whereby an incoming telephone connection is held automatically until a specified recipient can take the call; freq. in on hold. M20.
D. E. Westlake I put him on hold and called Mr Clarebridge. fig.: Ottawa Journal Our sex life is on hold until after the 10 p.m. sportscast.
Contention, struggle; resistance. E16-M17.
E. Johnson Great hold and keepe there was about choice of Magistrates this yeare.
II. A support, a defence. OE-ME.
Property held, a holding; spec. a tenement. Cf. COPYHOLD, FREEHOLD, LEASEHOLD, etc. ME-L16.
A place of refuge or shelter; esp. an animal's lurking-place. ME.
F. Francis Reed or rush beds,..all of which are favourite holds.
A fortress, a stronghold. arch. ME.
Lytton A rude fortress..out of the wrecks of some greater Roman hold.
a. A thing that holds something, a receptacle. E16.
b. Something which is grasped; something by or with which an object is grasped. L16.
J. Spencer To conclude it a falling cause which catcheth at such weak and unfaithful holds. F. Marryat Sharks..watched with upturned eyes..the snapping of the frail hold that supported me.
Music. A pause. Now chiefly US. L17.
A prison cell. E18.
The retention of an image in a Film-shot. E20.