1. Delay
2. A robbery carried out at gunpoint
3. Something that prevents something else from happening or causes it to happen late is a holdup.
4. When someone uses a gun or other weapon to rob a person, bank, or store, it is a holdup. A stickup is the same as a holdup.

ETYM Latin interruptio: cf. French interruption.
Some occurrence that interrupts; SYN. break, abrupt change.

ETYM French, from Latin pausa. Related to Pose.
(Homonym: paws).
1. A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something; SYN. intermission, break, interruption, suspension.
2. Temporary inactivity.

A fixed and immobile position; a stop; a state of rest.