Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
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.
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.
Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
A small aperture.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
Ventriloquism.
A slit in the seam of a garment.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
To allow gases to escape.
To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
To express a strong emotion.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
To sell; to vend.
To allow to escape through a vent.