Holdups is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 159 anagrams from letters in holdups (dhlopsu).
1830-40, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hold up
A holdup by all the people of all the people for all the people is Liberty.
A holdup man, caught in the act, had pretended to surrender.
Of course he doesn't expect the holdup—not in the papers anyhow.
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.
In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.
I offered him the value he put on the ranch himself, not a holdup price.
The two craft drew together, and for the rest it was like the other holdup.
And there I had a job explaining that I wasn't a holdup myself.
The burglar and holdup man are high-minded gentlemen by comparison.
Vrondran says that the holdup apparently surrounds BP's approval of the $200 per day pay for the deckhands.