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Definition of holding up
holding up
- to be doing. Usually an inquiry into a person's well-being.
How you holding up, buddy?
Citation from "Sheesh! Cab, Bob", Bob's Burgers (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Oct 30 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 13 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'hold': | |
| Definitions include: to have drugs. | |
| Definitions include: to be superior to, in some way. | |
| Definitions include: be there for you. | |
| Definitions include: a period of waiting, during which little can be accomplished, until a particular external event occurs. | |
| Definitions include: to wait. | |
| Definitions include: to wait. | |
| Definitions include: to wait patiently. | |
| Definitions include: to have a respectable alcohol tolerance. | |
| Definitions include: to maintain the proper operation of something, such as a business. | |
| Definitions include: "wait a minute"; "hold on"; etc. | |
| Definitions include: to agree with. | |
| Definitions include: to wait. | |
| Definitions include: to be inadequate. | |
| Definitions include: to abandon a person after a crime has been committed, leaving them with incriminating evidence (literally) or blame (figuratively.) | |
| Definitions include: said of a penis, extremely large. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
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