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HOLES

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

HOLES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

HOLES root HOLE-s

Word family

HOLE 1 HOLING 3 HOLED-d 2

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HOLINGS 5
noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
  4. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
    • I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
  5. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
    • The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
  6. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
  7. A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
  8. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
  9. slangAn excavation pit or trench.
  10. figurativelyA weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
    • I have found a hole in your argument.
  11. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  12. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  13. derogatoryslangvulgarA person's mouth.
    • Just shut your hole!
  14. slangvulgarThe anus.
  15. slangvulgarThe vagina.
  16. derogatoryA woman.
  17. informalSolitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
  18. slangAn undesirable place to live or visit.
    • His apartment is a hole!
  19. figurativelyDifficulty, in particular, debt.
    • If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
  20. A chordless cycle in a graph.
  21. slangA passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
    • We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
  22. CanadaUShistoricalA mountain valley.
    • Jackson Hole
verb
  1. transitiveTo make holes in (an object or surface).
    • Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
  2. broadlytransitiveTo destroy.
    • She completely holed the argument.
  3. intransitiveTo go into a hole.
  4. transitiveTo drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
    • Woods holed a standard three foot putt
  5. transitiveTo cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
adjective
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of whole.
  2. misspellingMisspelling of whole.