1. To have money in one's possession. 2. To have in one's possession contraband cash, cigarettes, tobacco, or other medium of exchange.

- american underworld dictionary - 1950

Hold"ing, n.

1.

The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.

2.

A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

3.

That which holds, binds, or influences.

Burke.

4.

The burden or chorus of a song.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Holding note Mus., a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

 

© Webster 1913.

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