Phrase Hound found 287 phrases and 182 compound words that contain hole. The most common are listed below. Open hole in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 287
- glory holeA hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- black holeA place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- hole in oneA hole that is completed by sinking the ball in a single shot or attempt, with one hit.
- security holeA security vulnerability in a computer system.
- fire in the holeA warning of an imminent explosion in a confined space, especially a grenade or blasting charge.
- memory holeA figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
- watering holeA depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink.
- rabbit holeA bizarre world, where everyday rules do not apply.
- hole punchA tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.
- hole-in-the-wallA restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked.
- white holeA theoretically possible but hypothetical singularity from which matter and energy are able to escape but unable to enter; the antithesis of a black hole.
- murder-holeAlternative form of murder hole.
- sound holeAn opening in the belly of a stringed instrument that increases its volume and enhances its tone quality.
- make a holeUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, hole.
- hole in the headA gunshot wound to the head.
- hole sawA saw in the form of a hollow cylinder with teeth on the end or edge, used to produce holes on the workpiece and operated by rotation, often as an accessory to a power drill.
- plot holeA gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
- work the holeTo rob drunks on the subway.
- touch holeA small hole through which the propellant charge of a cannon or muzzleloading gun is ignited.
- Jackson HoleA valley between the Gros Ventre Range and the Teton Range in Teton County, Wyoming, United States.
- f-holeA sound hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument.
- ozone holeA region of the stratosphere over Antarctica (and a smaller one over the Arctic) that is depleted of ozone in the local spring.
- bullet holeA circular wound or hole caused by the projectile of a firearm.
- bonus holeThe vulva or vagina of a trans man.
- front holeThe vagina (now sometimes especially of a trans man).
Compound words 182
- hulkA large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
- loopholeA slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light.
- manholeA hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.
- wormholeA hole burrowed by a worm.
- boreholeA hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
- potholeA shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic.
- keyholeThe hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
- sinkholeA hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- pinholeA small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
- portholeA gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannons are fired.