Definitions for holes

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holes hole

Spelling: [hohl]

IPA: /hoʊl/

Holes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in holes (ehlos).

Definitions for holes

noun

1. an opening through something; gap; aperture:
2. a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a cavity:
3. the excavated habitation of an animal; burrow.
4. a small, dingy, or shabby place:
5. a place of solitary confinement; dungeon.
6. an embarrassing position or predicament:
7. a cove or small harbor.
8. a fault or flaw:
9. a deep, still place in a stream:
10. Sports. a small cavity, into which a marble, ball, or the like is to be played. a score made by so playing.
11. Golf. the circular opening in a green into which the ball is to be played. a part of a golf course from a tee to the hole corresponding to it, including fairway, rough, and hazards. the number of strokes taken to hit the ball from a tee into the hole corresponding to it.
12. Informal. opening; slot:
13. Metalworking. (in wire drawing) one reduction of a section.
14. Electronics. a mobile vacancy in the electronic structure of a semiconductor that acts as a positive charge carrier and has equivalent mass.
15. Aeronautics. an air pocket that causes a plane or other aircraft to drop suddenly.

Idioms

1. burn a hole in one's pocket, to urge one to spend money quickly:
2. hole in the wall, a small or confining place, especially one that is dingy, shabby, or out-of-the-way:
3. in a / the hole, in debt; in straitened circumstances: Baseball, Softball. pitching or batting with the count of balls or balls and strikes to one's disadvantage, especially batting with a count of two strikes and one ball or none. Stud Poker. being the card or one of the cards dealt face down in the first round:
4. make a hole in, to take a large part of:
5. pick a hole / holes in, to find a fault or flaw in: Also, poke a hole/holes in.

Verb phrases

1. hole out, Golf. to strike the ball into a hole:
2. hole up, to go into a hole; retire for the winter, as a hibernating animal. to hide, as from pursuers, the police, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a hole or holes in.
2. to put or drive into a hole.
3. Golf. to hit the ball into (a hole).
4. to bore (a tunnel, passage, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to make a hole or holes.

Origin of holes

before 900; Middle English; Old English hol hole, cave, orig. neuter of hol (adj.) hollow; cognate with German hohl hollow

Examples for holes

Charmed, old man; deuced pally of you to stay by us down in that hole, you know.

There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.

He dug a hole and he covered it with branches and leaves and a little grass.

I ain't ever met a person yet was satisfied with the hole they was in.

Instead of going for the hole, I hit the ball directly into the water.

If the ball gets in the hole, the screen shifts to reveal the next hole.

At about noon we found some water in a gully by scratching a hole, but it was quite salt.

There was plenty of water in the hole, which is about six feet deep.

When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.

Go for a hole in one, or maybe try to only use huge arcs to get it in.