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▸ noun: An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
▸ noun: (heading) In games.
▸ noun: (golf) 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.
▸ noun: (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
▸ noun: (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
▸ noun: (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
▸ noun: (stud poker) 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.
▸ noun: In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
▸ noun: (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
▸ noun: (informal) A container or receptacle.
▸ noun: (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
▸ noun: (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
▸ noun: (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
▸ noun: (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
▸ noun: (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Vagina.
▸ noun: (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
▸ noun: (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
▸ noun: (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
▸ noun: (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
▸ noun: (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
▸ noun: (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
▸ verb: (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To go into a hole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ adjective: Obsolete spelling of whole.. [Entire, undivided.]
▸ adjective: Misspelling of whole. [Entire, undivided.]
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