holding in a restart

Term used for when Windows asks if you want to restart now or later, and you choose later. Also fair warning when online that you might restart any minute. Its the same as holding in a shit in that eventually, you have to do it. Thus, "holding in a restart".

Bob: Ey, just to let you know I'm holding in a restart.
Steve: Gotcha.

Hold a ballpark

Telling someone to hold their meat

Ryan: Mark was being such a jerk so I told him hold a ballpark

hold this l

hold this loss

It's when you lose at something, and someone says "hold this l"

Steve: "I think Hilary Clinton is going to win."
James: "Nah it's gonna be Donald Trump, hold this l."

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hold the fort

to assume responsibility in another person's absence

Would you hold the fort for me while I go see what happened next door?

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Penalty Hold

Call Center term - the act by an agent of putting a caller on hold as punishment for being stupid or otherwise annoying. Duration of penalty hold is a function of how irritating the caller is being.

Caller: well I want you to bla bla bla because I'm important and you're just a peon and bla bla bla...

Agent (smiling): Just a moment, Ma'am, let me see what I can do for you (places call on hold)

Cube-mate: Hey, are you on break?

Agent: Naw, I've got a caller on a five-minute penalty hold.

- - -

Agent 1: Don't you hate it when they start demanding shit like they're entitled?

Agent 2: Yeah! I usually give them at least three minutes penalty hold.

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hold 10

A highly ghetto phrase used to ask for borrowing money from your friends. Most commonly $10 for a hit of heroin or crack. Often used in the HBO series, "The Wire."

Yo Boogey, lemme' hold 10 nigga.

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Holding hair

To help out someone who is drunk, especially a girl.

Origin: Comes from the need to hold a girl's long hair back out of the way while she chunders.

Oh man, that chick was so trashed, I spent half the night holding hair.

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