Hole

noun holes

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure. I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent. There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
3. 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.
4. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
5. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
6. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
7. 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.
8. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
9. slang An excavation pit or trench.
10. figuratively A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity. I have found a hole in your argument.
11. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
12. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
13. derogatory, slang, vulgar A person's mouth. Just shut your hole!
14. slang, vulgar The anus.
15. slang, vulgar The vagina.
16. derogatory A woman.
17. informal, with definite article Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.
18. slang An undesirable place to live or visit. His apartment is a hole!
19. figuratively Difficulty, in particular, debt. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
20. A chordless cycle in a graph.
21. slang A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other. We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
22. Canada, US, historical A mountain valley. Jackson Hole

Similar: hole

verb holes · holing · holed

1. transitive To make holes in (an object or surface). Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
2. broadly, transitive To destroy. She completely holed the argument.
3. intransitive To go into a hole. Good master Picklock, with your worming brain, And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly! A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a pillory!
4. transitive To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
5. transitive To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

adjective holer · more hole · holest · most hole

1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of whole.whole Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
2. misspelling Misspelling of whole.whole

proper noun Holes

1. A surname.