A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
A particular version or edit of a film.
A share or portion of profits.
An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
A skein of yarn.
A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
The result of cutting.
In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
The card obtained by dividing the pack.
The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
The act of cutting.
An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
A slab, especially of meat.
A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
An unkind act; a cruelty.
A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
A haircut.
A decrease.
An instruction to cease recording.
To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
To reduce, especially intentionally.
To exhibit (a quality).
To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
To wound with a knife.
To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
To enter a queue in the wrong place.
To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
To stop, disengage, or cease.
To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
To form or shape by cutting.
To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
To make or negotiate.
To castrate or geld.
To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
To change direction suddenly.
To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
Reduced.
Having been cut.
Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
Carved into a shape; not raw.
Emotionally hurt.
An undesirable place to live or visit.
A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
An excavation pit or trench.
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.
A container or receptacle.
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
Sex, or a sex partner.
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
A chordless cycle in a graph.
A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
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.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
To go into a hole.
To make holes in (an object or surface).
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
To destroy.