To stop, with a view to plunder.
1887. Any man could hold up a wagon.—A. A. Hayes, ‘Jesuit’s Ring,’ p. 228. (N.E.D.)
1910. St. Paul, Minn.—Two masked bandits attempted early to-day to hold up the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad’s “Pioneer limited,” which arrived in St. Paul at 7:15 o’clock this morning.—N.Y. Evening Post, April 8.
1911. The question is pressed whether the granting of loans on Steel bond collateral, which were being refused on the Tennessee stock, may not have represented a Wall Street “hold-up.”—Id., June 8.
