hodl
6 synonyms and 3 antonyms for hodl, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To keep holding a cryptocurrency rather than selling it, particularly while its price is falling.
Synonyms
Everyday swaps
Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. verb slang
To keep holding a cryptocurrency rather than selling it, particularly while its price is falling.
“He has hodled the same coins through three crashes without selling any of them.”
Opposites
2. noun slang
The practice or attitude of holding on to a cryptocurrency for the long term instead of trading it.
“Her whole strategy is hodl; she has not made a trade in two years.”
How to use hodl
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Slang, and deliberately so; the misspelling is the point and correcting it to hodl-with-an-l misses the joke. Common in forums, memes and headlines, out of place in formal financial writing.
Etymology
From a misspelling of holding in a 2013 post on the Bitcointalk forum titled I AM HODLING, which was picked up and reused as a term in its own right; it is often backronymed as hold on for dear life, but that reading came afterwards.
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