Function: transitive verb
Date: 1851
1 : to rob at gunpoint
2 : DELAY , IMPEDE
3 : to call attention to : single out <his work was held up to ridicule> < hold this up as perfection ― Times Lit. Supp. >
intransitive verb : to continue in the same condition without failing or losing effectiveness or force <she's holding up under the strain> <music that holds up twenty years later>