Held up
Late
Late adjective - Not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time.
Held up and late are semantically related in not on time topic. You can use "Held up" instead an adjective "Late".
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Before the late 19th century, stockings were customarily held up by round garters, ribbons of various materials, or even simply rolled up at or above the knee.
Source: Stocking Filler -
When the band made a musical appearance on The Late Show, David Letterman held up their record and joked that it was available "in wallpaper stores everywhere."
Source: Minimalistic Cover Art - In Warp Zone Project, a Card-Carrying Villain that is being held up by a super-hero that supposed to let him go sooner or later asks if the emprisonment will last any longer because he's late to take a school bus hostage.
Source: Bus Full of Innocents
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