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holdupper

holdupper is the alternative form of hold-upper.

Meaning of hold-upper

Noun

hold-upper (plural hold-uppers)

  1. (Philippines) One who carries out a robbery at gunpoint.

Forms of holdupper

pluralholduppers

Questions about holdupper

What is holdupper the alternative form of?
Holdupper is the alternative form of hold-upper.

Words near holdupper in the dictionary

  1. holdsman
  2. holdsmen
  3. Holdsworth
  4. Holdsworths
  5. holdup
  6. holdupper
  7. holduppers
  8. holdups
  9. hole
  10. hole card
  11. hole carding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holdupper (page history and authors); hold-upper (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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