Usually means: Remove something by excavating it.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. dig out: Merriam-Webster
  2. dig out: Vocabulary.com
  3. dig-out: Wordnik
  4. dig out: Wiktionary
  5. dig out: Dictionary.com
  6. dig out: Rhymezone
  7. dig out: FreeDictionary.org
  8. dig out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. dig out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. dig out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dig out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dig out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dig out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dig out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. dig out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dig out)

verb:  (transitive) To remove something by digging.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
verb:  (transitive) To make something by digging.
verb:  (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.

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