An excavation pit or trench.
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.
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.
A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
A shave.
A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
An awkward set of circumstances.
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
To barely manage to achieve.
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.