holdup

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In Atlanta, when Holdup Victim D. M. Strickland got so jittery that he could not identify his assailants, police put Strickland in the lineup, had the two confessed gunmen pick him from the group.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, I'll bet Mr. Holdup didn't get a mint off you lads."

From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod

Mrs. Thornton was, however, so far the dupe of her own folly, that she conceived Miss Holdup the finest child she had ever known, and a decisive proof of her own talents for education.

From The Barbadoes Girl A Tale for Young People by Hofland, Mrs.