hole vs pickle

hole

noun
  • The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

pickle

noun
  • A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown 

  • A difficult situation; peril. 

  • A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain. 

  • A mildly mischievous loved one. 

  • A penis. 

  • A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour. 

  • In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. 

  • Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 

  • A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) 

  • A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. 

  • The brine used for preserving food. 

  • A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust. 

  • A rundown. 

  • A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. 

verb
  • To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. 

  • To eat sparingly. 

  • To pilfer. 

  • To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. 

  • To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. 

  • To serialize. 

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