holes

/həʊlz//hoʊlz/

noun

  1. 1

    A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

    There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
  2. 2

    (heading) In games.

  3. 3

    An excavation pit or trench.

  4. 4

    A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

    I have found a hole in your argument.
  5. 5

    A container or receptacle.

    car hole;  brain hole
  6. 6

    In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

  7. 7

    A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

  8. 8

    An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

    Just shut your hole!
  9. 9

    (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

    Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
  10. 10

    (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

  11. 11

    An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

    His apartment is a hole!
  12. 12

    Difficulty, in particular, debt.

    If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
  13. 13

    A chordless cycle in a graph.

verb

  1. 1

    To make holes in (an object or surface).

    Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
  2. 2

    (by extension) To destroy.

    She completely holed the argument.
  3. 3

    To go into a hole.

  4. 4

    To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

    Woods holed a standard three foot putt
  5. 5

    To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

    to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

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