hold-up play

Language: en

Meaning: (soccer,idiomatic)A play where an attacker retains possession of the ball, while the teammates can move up the field.2011January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, inBBC‎[1]:Arsenal must have been pleased that Leeds' leading scorer Luciano Becchio was ruled out with a back injury and the hosts missed hishold-up playand threat for long periods as Wenger's side produced wave after wave of attack.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary