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hold the phone

hold the phone interjection: stop; wait; whoa.

Interjection

  1. (idiomatic, slang) stop; wait; whoa.
    • Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.

Verb

hold the phone (third-person singular simple present holds the phone, present participle holding the phone, simple past and past participle held the phone)

  1. To hold; to wait for someone at the other end of a telephone connection.
    • They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.

hold the phone meaning in Bengali

hold the phone in Bengali

থামা, অপেক্ষা করা, আরে

Forms of hold the phone

third-person singular presentholds the phone
present participleholding the phone
past participleheld the phone
pastheld the phone

Questions about hold the phone

What does hold the phone mean?
Hold the phone means stop; wait; whoa.
What is hold the phone in Bengali?
Hold the phone in Bengali is থামা, অপেক্ষা করা, আরে. See Hold the phone meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hold the phone?
Hold the phone can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near hold the phone in the dictionary

  1. hold the book
  2. hold the cards
  3. hold the floor
  4. hold the fort
  5. hold the line
  6. hold the phone
  7. hold the purse strings
  8. hold the reins
  9. hold the ring
  10. hold the road
  11. hold the stage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold the phone (page history and authors); hold the phone (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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