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DIG

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

DIG is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

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verb
  1. intransitivetransitiveTo move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
    • They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
    • In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
    • If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
    • My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.
  2. transitiveTo get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
    • to dig potatoes
    • to dig up gold
  3. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  4. USdatedslangTo work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  5. figurativelyTo investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
    • to dig up evidence
    • to dig out the facts
  6. To thrust; to poke.
    • He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
  7. To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
  8. datedslangTo understand.
    • You dig?
  9. datedslangtransitiveTo appreciate, or like.
    • Baby, I dig you.
noun
  1. An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
  2. Any act of digging to find or retrieve something.
  3. A thrust; a poke.
    • He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
  4. archaicslangA hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard.
  5. A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  6. An innings.
  7. A cutting, sarcastic remark.
  8. The occupation of digging for gold.
  9. UScolloquialdatedA plodding and laborious student.
  10. UKdateddialectalA tool for digging.
  11. slangA rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
    • a £1 charity shop dig
  12. colloquialuncountableDigoxin.
    • dig toxicity
  13. obsoleteA duck.