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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: hole in the wall n informal - chiefly Brit
another name for cash dispenser - a small dingy place, esp one difficult to find
hole /hoʊl/USA pronunciation n., v., holed, hol•ing. n. [countable] - an opening through something;
gap:a hole in the roof. - a hollow place in a solid mass;
cavity:a hole in the ground. - a place dug out by an animal to live in;
burrow:a rabbit hole. - a cramped, small, uncomfortable, unpleasant place to live in:living in an awful hole downtown.
- an embarrassing position or predicament.
- a fault;
flaw:They pointed out the holes in your argument. - Sport
- a circular opening in a golfing green into which the ball is to be played.
- a part of a golf course including fairway, rough, and hazards:the eighteenth hole.
v. [~ + object] - to make a hole in.
- to put or drive into a hole:The golfer holed that last shot.
- hole up:
- [no object] to retire into a hole or cave for the winter.
- to hide from or as if from pursuers;
take refuge: [no object]They holed up in the old section of town.[be + ~-ed up]They were holed up in the old hotel.
Idioms- Idioms hole in the wall, a small or confining place.
- Games, Idioms in a or the hole, in debt:I'm in the hole for $300.
- Idioms pick a hole or holes in, [ ~ + obj] to notice and point out errors in:Go over this plan tonight and see if you can pick some holes in it.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hole (hōl),USA pronunciation n., v., holed, hol•ing. n. - an opening through something;
gap;
aperture:a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock. - a hollow place in a solid body or mass;
a cavity:a hole in the ground. - the excavated habitation of an animal;
burrow. - a small, dingy, or shabby place:I couldn't live in a hole like that.
- a place of solitary confinement;
dungeon. - an embarrassing position or predicament:to find oneself in a hole.
- a cove or small harbor.
- a fault or flaw:They found serious holes in his reasoning.
- a deep, still place in a stream:a swimming hole.
- Sport
- a small cavity, into which a marble, ball, or the like is to be played.
- a score made by so playing.
- Sport[Golf.]
- the circular opening in a green into which the ball is to be played.
- a part of a golf course from a tee to the hole corresponding to it, including fairway, rough, and hazards.
- the number of strokes taken to hit the ball from a tee into the hole corresponding to it.
- Informal Termsopening;
slot:The radio program was scheduled for the p.m. hole. We need an experienced person to fill a hole in our accounting department. - Metallurgy(in wire drawing) one reduction of a section.
- Electronicsa mobile vacancy in the electronic structure of a semiconductor that acts as a positive charge carrier and has equivalent mass.
- Aeronauticsan air pocket that causes a plane or other aircraft to drop suddenly.
- Idioms burn a hole in one's pocket, to urge one to spend money quickly:His inheritance was burning a hole in his pocket.
- Idioms hole in the wall, a small or confining place, esp. one that is dingy, shabby, or out-of-the-way:Their first shop was a real hole in the wall.
- Games, Idioms in a or the hole:
- in debt;
in straitened circumstances:After Christmas I am always in the hole for at least a month. - Sport[Baseball, Softball.]pitching or batting with the count of balls or balls and strikes to one's disadvantage, esp. batting with a count of two strikes and one ball or none.
- Games[Stud Poker.]being the card or one of the cards dealt face down in the first round:a king in the hole.
- Idioms make a hole in, to take a large part of:A large bill from the dentist made a hole in her savings.
- Idioms pick a hole or holes in, to find a fault or flaw in:As soon as I presented my argument, he began to pick holes in it.
v.t. - to make a hole or holes in.
- to put or drive into a hole.
- Sport[Golf.]to hit the ball into (a hole).
- Civil Engineeringto bore (a tunnel, passage, etc.).
v.i. - to make a hole or holes.
- hole out, [Golf.]to strike the ball into a hole:He holed out in five, one over par.
- hole up:
- to go into a hole;
retire for the winter, as a hibernating animal. - to hide, as from pursuers, the police, etc.:The police think the bank robbers are holed up in Chicago.
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English hol hole, cave, origin, originally neuter of hol (adjective, adjectival) hollow; cognate with German hohl hollow
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pit, hollow, concavity. Hole, cavity, excavation refer to a hollow place in anything. Hole is the common word for this idea:a hole in turf.Cavity is a more formal or scientific term for a hollow within the body or in a substance, whether with or without a passage outward:a cavity in a tooth; the cranial cavity.An excavation is an extended hole made by digging out or removing material:an excavation before the construction of a building.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged den, cave; lair, retreat.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hovel, shack.
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