hold up

verb

To wait or delay.
“Hold up a minute. I want to check something.”
To impede; detain.
“I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?”
“What is holding up traffic?”
To impede; detain.
“The guy tried to hold up a bank.”
“"Down, Dom!" he cried, "throw yourself down! Break in, Guido. Break in the door. We are held up!"”
To support or lift.
“Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.”
“In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.”
To support or lift.
“His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.”
“held up for public ridicule”
To support or lift.
“I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.”
To persist.
“hold up to scrutiny”
“hold up to heavy use”
To persist.
“For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal”
To persist.
“how're you holdin up?”
To persist.
“Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.”