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"form": "holds it",
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},
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"form": "holding it",
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"participle",
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"text": "Hold it. What did you say his name was?",
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"Wait a minute; stop."
],
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"(imperative) Wait a minute; stop."
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"word": "hang on"
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"word": "hold up"
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"text": "Can't you hold it until the next gas station?",
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"glosses": [
"To wait to urinate or defecate despite present urgency."
],
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"word": "hold one's water"
},
{
"word": "hold one's piss"
},
{
"word": "hold it in"
}
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, it."
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{
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"Wait a minute; stop."
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"(imperative) Wait a minute; stop."
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"To wait to urinate or defecate despite present urgency."
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"word": "hold one's water"
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{
"word": "hold one's piss"
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"word": "hold it in"
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"word": "hold it"
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