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.
An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
A mine.
A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
The bottom part of something.
Armpit.
A mosh pit.
Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
A bed.
A luggage hold.
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
A hole in the ground.
The emergency department.
The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
A pit bull terrier.
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
A trading pit.
A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
The center of the line.
Only used in the pits.
The grave, underworld or Hell.
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
To bring (something) into opposition with something else.