"hold" = borrow

Wilson Gray wilson.gray at RCN.COM
Fri Jul 15 20:17:25 UTC 2005


More usage extension

A thirty-ish black woman from Rochester, NY, said, "Let me hold [=
borrow] your motorscooter." In my lost youth, in the '40's and '50's,
"hold" referred only to "cash-money," as in "Let me hold [= borrow] a
Benny Franklin."

-Wilson Gray



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