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holes

/həʊlz/ · noun

Meaning

  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.
  2. (heading) In games.
  3. An excavation pit or trench.
  4. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
  5. A container or receptacle.
  6. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  7. To make holes in (an object or surface).
  8. (by extension) To destroy.
  9. To go into a hole.
  10. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
  11. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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