Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

holder-up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables
hold-er-up
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who holds up something.

noun

A bucker; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet (heated if necessary till it is soft), while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable-impulse pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.

Inflected Forms

holders-up (plural)

Questions

What does holder-up mean?
One who holds up something.

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