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Definition of hold down

hold down

verb - transitive

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Other terms relating to 'down':

Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
Definitions include: to sadden one.
Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
Definitions include: unattractive.
Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
Definitions include: to eat.
Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
Definitions include: to stop being angry.

Other terms relating to 'hold':

Definitions include: to have drugs.
Definitions include: to be superior to, in some way.
Definitions include: a period of waiting, during which little can be accomplished, until a particular external event occurs.
Definitions include: to be doing.
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.

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