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cornhole

  • /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ US

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From corn + hole.

(anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

noun cornholes

  1. UK, countable, dated, uncountable A small room connected to a threshing floor. The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
  2. US, uncountable A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole. Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.

    Similar: baggo, corn toss

  3. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar The anus.

verb cornholes · cornholing · cornholed

  1. slang, vulgar To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally. He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.

    Similar: sodomize

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@misc{cornhole_2026,
  title = {cornhole},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cornhole},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}