Holdup is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 83 anagrams from letters in holdup (dhlopu).
1830-40, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hold up
As they fled the scene of their holdup, the terrified taxi driver took them to Place de la Nation in the eastern part of Paris.
A holdup by all the people of all the people for all the people is Liberty.
Of course he doesn't expect the holdup—not in the papers anyhow.
A holdup man, caught in the act, had pretended to surrender.
In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.
The burglar and holdup man are high-minded gentlemen by comparison.
And there I had a job explaining that I wasn't a holdup myself.
The two craft drew together, and for the rest it was like the other holdup.
Vrondran says that the holdup apparently surrounds BP's approval of the $200 per day pay for the deckhands.
I offered him the value he put on the ranch himself, not a holdup price.