A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

(heading) A subsurface standard-size opening in golf, a part of a game where a player tries to hit the ball into one of the holes, the rear portion of the defensive team in baseball, a square on the chessboard that a player does not control, a face-down card in stud poker, or a part of the floor in the game of fives.

(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.

(figurative) 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, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

(Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

(slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

(transitive, by extension) To destroy.

(intransitive) To go into a hole.

(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Obsolete spelling of whole.