Meaning

• 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.

  "There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it."

• (heading) In games.

• An excavation pit or trench.

• A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

  "I have found a hole in your argument."

• A container or receptacle.

  "car hole;  brain hole"

• In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

• A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

• An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

  "Just shut your hole!"

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

  "Are you going out to get your hole tonight?"

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

• An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

  "His apartment is a hole!"

• Difficulty, in particular, debt.

  "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

• A chordless cycle in a graph.

Meaning

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

  "Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."

• (by extension) To destroy.

  "She completely holed the argument."

• To go into a hole.

• To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

  "Woods holed a standard three foot putt"

• To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

  "to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"