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holdup [′hōl‚dəp]
(chemical engineering)
Volume of material held or contained in a process vessel or line.
Liquid held up (suspended) in a vertical process vessel or line by rising gas or vapor streams.
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Ned stopped short, thinking he was to be the victim of a holdup, but his fears were allayed when he beheld one of the police force of Shopton confronting him.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
"Hinkydink" or "Bathhouse John," or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago, and also the "gray wolves" of the city council, who gave away the streets of the city to the businessmen; and those who patronized their places were the gamblers and prize fighters who set the law at defiance, and the burglars and holdup men who kept the whole city in terror.
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