hole

Plural: holes

Noun

• an opening into or through something
• an opening deliberately made in or through something
• one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
  • "he played 18 holes"
• an unoccupied space
• a depression hollowed out of solid matter
• a fault
  • "he shot holes in my argument"
• informal terms for a difficult situation
• informal terms for the mouth
• A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
• An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
• In games.
• A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
• In games.
• The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
• In games.
• The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
• In games.
• A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
• In games.
• A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
• In games.
• In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
• An excavation pit or trench.
• A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
• In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
• A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• A person's mouth.
• Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
• A vagina.
• Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• An undesirable place to live or visit.
• Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• A chordless cycle in a graph.
• A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
• A mountain valley.

Verb

Verb Forms: holed, holing, holes

• To make a hole or cavity in something.
• hit the ball into the hole
• make holes in
• To make holes in (an object or surface).
• To destroy.
• To go into a hole.
• To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Adj

• Obsolete spelling of whole.
• Misspelling of whole.

Examples

• He tried to HOLE a spot for his ’Z’ on the triple-letter score.
• His apartment is a hole!
• I have found a hole in your argument.
• I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
• I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
• If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
• Jackson Hole
• Just shut your hole!
• She completely holed the argument.
• Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
• The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
• There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
• We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
• Woods holed a standard three foot putt

Synonyms

cakehole, fix, gob, golf hole, hole out, hollow, jam, kettle of fish, maw, mess, muddle, pickle, trap, yap, SCU, SHU, ad-seg, administrative segregation, block, box, cooler, hole, hotbox, lockdown, pound, security housing unit, special handling unit

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