Usually means: Depression in road causing damage.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pothole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pothole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pothole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pothole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pothole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pothole, pothole: Wordnik
  7. pothole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pothole: Wiktionary
  9. pothole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pothole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pothole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pothole, pothole: Dictionary.com
  13. pothole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pothole (disambiguation), Pothole (geology), Pothole (landform), Pothole, The Pothole (Seinfeld), The Pothole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pothole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pothole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pothole: Rhymezone
  18. Pothole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pothole: Free Dictionary
  20. pothole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Pothole: The Word Detective
  22. pothole: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pothole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pothole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See potholed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
noun:  A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
noun:  (geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
noun:  (archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
noun:  (Australia, mining) A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
noun:  (fandom slang, TV Tropes) A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.
noun:  A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.

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