hole
- noun
- /hoʊl/
- It went into an extra tiebreaker hole and he won.
- eighteen holes
- 18-hole
- nine holes
Examples
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By the time we finished our last hole, it was clear that Judy had beaten me soundly.
Fiction book (1992) -
This might be the coolest hole I've ever golfed.
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And to be honest, I can start with hole number six and here we go.
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Now that should be a very close hole to this pin.
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Wow, this is one tough hole.
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Well, then you must visit the hole-in-one room.
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Up around the eleventh hole, I had a pain in my gut.
Fiction book (1994) -
Dr. Bob winds up losing two strokes on the hole, and we're tied again.
Fiction book (1996) -
One minute I'm on the 14th hole at Winged Foot, lining up a putt.
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To win the match, he needs to sink the ball into the hole on the green.
Synonyms
The area on a golf course played from the tee to the cup
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hole comes from an old German word hol meaning 'hollow', and golfers call the hollow in the ground the hole because the ball must go into that hollow. So each hole on a golf course is one unit of play that ends when the ball drops into that hollow.