Hole | Mean of hole in English Dictionary

/ˈhoʊl/

• Noun
• an opening into or through something
1. I have a hole in my sock.
2. He fixed the hole in the roof.
3. a bullet hole
4. make/poke/drill a hole
5. a mouse hole in the wall
• a hollow place in the ground
1. The dog dug a deep/shallow hole.
• a place in the ground where an animal lives
1. a rabbit hole

• the cup into which the ball is hit
1. Her putt rolled right into the hole.
• one of the separate parts of a golf course that includes a tee and a green
1. She made a birdie on the seventh hole.
2. The course has 18 holes.
• a flaw or weakness
1. There are plenty of holes in the theory.
2. There are a couple of holes in their defense.
3. The police were unable to poke any holes in his story. [=to find evidence showing that his story was not true]
• a difficult or embarrassing situation
1. He's in trouble and needs someone to help get/dig him out of this hole. [=fix, jam]
2. They found themselves in a hole, trailing by 10 points with not much time left in the game.
• the state of owing or losing money
1. She gave them a loan to help get them out of their financial hole. [=debt]
2. He was hundreds of dollars in the hole [=he owed hundreds of dollars] by the end of the night.
• a dirty and unpleasant place
1. I can't believe he lives there! It's such a hole!
• a prison cell where a prisoner who is being punished is kept alone
1. He spent a month in the hole. [=(more formally) in solitary confinement]
• an open area between two fielders
1. He hit a grounder that went through the hole between the first and second basemen.
2. He hit a sharp ground ball into the hole. [=the area between the shortstop and third baseman]
• an open area between defenders that allows an offensive player to move the ball forward
1. a running back skilled at finding holes
• to weaken (an argument, idea, etc.) by proving that parts of it are wrong
1. Lawyers tried to punch holes in her argument.
• Verb
• to hit (the ball) into the hole
1. She holed a long putt for a birdie.
2. She waited for her partner to hole out [=to finish putting the ball into the hole] before she putted.
• to stay in a place hidden or apart from other people
1. The criminals holed up in a downtown motel for a few days.
2. The band holed up in the recording studio to record their album.
3. The band was/stayed holed up in the recording studio.