hole

Definitions

• A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
• (heading) In games.
• (archaeology) An excavation pit or trench.
• (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
• (informal) A container or receptacle.
• (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
• (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• (slang) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
• (Ireland) Sex, or a sex partner.
• (informal) solitary Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.