hole
- noun
- /hoʊl/
- Vulgar
- The warden sends him to the "hole," the place most dreaded by the prisoners.
Examples
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-Shut your hole and get out of here!
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Just shut your hole and get to packing, okay?
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I know you don't know me from a hole in the wall, but you've gotta trust me.
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The van drove by the spruced-up "watering hole" Robert L. Cole Community Lake.
Blog text (1) -
-Shut your hole and get out of here!
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Somebody tell Trixie to shut her cake hole before I change my mind.
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Harry, you gotta give me that hole.
Synonyms
The place where a river enters the sea or a lake
The mouth, especially when used for talking or making noise
The mouth used for talking or making noise
The mouth used for talking or eating
A wide open mouth of a hungry animal or thing that eats everything
The mouth of a person, used in a rude or joking way to tell them to be quiet
A slang word for the mouth when someone talks loudly
The opening of the mouth that lets you eat and speak
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
An area of space with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it
A thing, like a failing project, that uses a lot of time or money and gives nothing back
A small hidden restaurant or cafe that looks simple but serves very good food
- Specialized
A thin area high above the Earth near the poles where a protective gas becomes very low
- UK
A hollow in the ground that forms when buried ice melts and is often filled with water
- Specialized
A hole that workers drill in rock or earth to hold explosives for blasting
- Specialized
An opening in the top of an instrument with strings, like a guitar, that makes its sound louder
- Jargon
A website that attackers secretly change to infect visitors' computers or steal passwords
A small prison cell in Fort William, Calcutta, where many British prisoners died overnight in 1756
- Specialized
A hole on a wind instrument like a flute covered or uncovered by your finger to change the note
- Archaic
A hole in the mast platform that lets a sailor climb through from inside the rigging
- UK
A hole in the ground where water goes underground into caves, often in limestone
How Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hole originally meant a 'hollow' or opening (from the old German hol), and people started using it for the mouth because the mouth is an opening. So calling someone's mouth a hole is a crude way to mean their opening for speaking or eating.