hols
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of hols
By shortening
Example Sentences
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Thank you for the mystical stimulus over the hols!
From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2020
With few funds for advertising, he hit on a marketing ploy of making sure Swedes could buy the beverage when they travelled south to the Mediterranean on their summer hols.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2013
After the hols, I get my pupils to write a letter to me telling me about themselves and what they've done in the summer.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2011
Nourabad: No. Leila and Nadir: Then we are / Ready to die together / On these sun-drenched / Sun-kissed shores / Where one day / Loads of people / Will come / For their hols.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
“Firms only just back from the Christmas hols, that’s why. Still, Oxford’s hardly the ends of the earth, is it, Mrs. Rhydd? Be going up to see Dad soon, will we?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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