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From a newspaper report today:
"Police said two gunmen were shot dead, but two more were still believed to be holed up inside the hotel."
Shouldn't this be hold up? I always thought the expression was from an archaic use of 'hold' (as in a stronghold) as a past-participle, and that the use of 'holed' was a recent hompohonous development. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it has always been 'holed'?
There are plenty of webxamples of 'were hold up' but this could of course be a typo for 'holed up' so how can I tell?
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I always thought that the gunmen holed up (as in hid in their burrow) after the bank was held up.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I believe it's to hole up ( link). Besides past tense of to hold up (as in delay, link) would be held up.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I always thought that the gunmen holed up (as in hid in their burrow) after the bank was held up. Yeah, I'm with you on this one. As in Bunker Hole.
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Bunker is much better than burrow.
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