hole

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one playing period, from tee to green, on a golf course

   The foursome played 18 holes.

2. 2
   noun

   a fault or problem

   There were many holes in the student's argument.

3. 3
   noun

   A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

   I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.

4. 4
   noun

   An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

   There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

5. 5
   noun

   A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

   I have found a hole in your argument.

6. 6
   noun

   Any bodily orifice.

   Just shut your hole!

7. 7
   noun

   Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

   In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.

8. 8
   noun

   An undesirable place to live or visit.

   His apartment is a hole!

Etymology

Various origins: * English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”). * Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol (“hole, depression, cavity”).