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holed

Variant of hole

noun

  1. a hollow or hollowed-out place; cavity; specif.,
    1. an excavation or pit
    2. ☆ a small bay or inlet; cove: often in place names
    3. a pool or deep, relatively wide place in a stream: a swimming hole
    4. an animal's burrow or lair; den
  2. a small, dingy, squalid place; any dirty, badly lighted room, house, etc.
    1. an opening in or through anything; break; gap: a hole in the wall
    2. a tear or rent, or a place where fabric is worn away, as in a garment
  3. a flaw; fault; blemish; defect: holes in an argument
  4. Informal an embarrassing situation or position; predicament
  5. Golf
    1. a small, cylindrical cup sunk into a green, into which a ball is to be hit
    2. any of the distinct sections of a course, including the tee, the fairway, and the green: played the fifth hole in par
  6. Physics, Electronics a vacancy in a semiconductor, crystal, etc. left by the loss or absence of an electron: in some semiconductors it acts as a carrier of a positive electric charge

transitive verb holed, holing

  1. to make a hole or holes in
  2. to put, hit, or drive into a hole
  3. to create by making a hole: to hole a tunnel through a mountain

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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