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ahold
[ uh-hohld ]
noun
- Informal. a hold or grasp (often followed by of ):
He took ahold of my arm. Grab ahold!
adverb
- Nautical Archaic. close to the wind and on a single tack:
to keep a vessel ahold.
yvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- get ahold of, Informal. hold 1( def 53 ).
Example Sentences
Nadal was the bulldog who got ahold of your pants leg and never let go.
“The administration,” she said, “is notoriously difficult to get ahold of.”
I have to get ahold of her to get it.
“Every little bush in the yard is burned. But it wasn’t able to get in the house — there’s nothing for it to get ahold of.”
The mystery was solved when Concord De La Salle football coach Justin Alumbaugh reached me and apologized that his 2-year-old daughter, Isabel, had gotten ahold of his phone.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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