Definitions for keyhole

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keyhole key·hole

Spelling: [kee-hohl]

IPA: /ˈkiˌhoʊl/

Keyhole is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in keyhole (eehkloy).

Definitions for keyhole

noun

1. a hole for inserting a key in a lock, especially one in the shape of a circle with a rectangle having a width smaller than the diameter of the circle projecting from the bottom.
2. Also called key. Basketball. the area at each end of the court that is bounded by two lines extending from the end line parallel to and equidistant from the sidelines and terminating in a circle around the foul line.

adjective

1. extremely private or intimate, especially with reference to information gained as if by peeping through a keyhole.
2. snooping and intrusive:

Origin of keyhole

First recorded in 1585-95; key¹ + hole

Examples for keyhole

He tried to peep through the keyhole, but the key was in it.

Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow.

You say you looked through the keyhole and saw her take the money?

Mumbling helps audiences "feel like they're peeking in the keyhole," Batson says.

He went to the keyhole of the door leading into the passage.

With the key in the keyhole, they had kept their doors locked during the night.

A peek through the keyhole on its website reveals a moving line of classic and contemporary nude images.

The key rattled at the keyhole and then dropped to the floor.

So beware of keyhole cutouts or string bottoms—those are a preschool fashion no-no.

This week, Stephen King published his 51st novel, The Wind Through the keyhole, the latest in his Dark Tower series.