Be holed up

Definition

hole /hǝƱl/ n ၁။ [C] (က) အေပါက္။ အေခါင္း။ တြင္း။ က်င္း။ ခ်ဳိင့္။ ကလိုင္။ a hole in a tooth ❍ dig a deep hole ❍ The road is full of gaping holes. (ခ) အေပါက္။ drill/ punch a hole in sth ❍ a bullet hole ❍ The prisoners knocked a hole in the wall and escaped. ❍ I've worn holes in my socks. ❍ My socks are full of holes. ❍ the hole in the ozone layer. See also PIGEONHOLE ၂။ [C] (က) (တိရစၧာန္မ်ား ခိုေအာင္းေနရာ) တြင္း။ a mouse hole ❍ a fox's hole. (ခ) (usu sing ) ( infml ) က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေမွာင္မည္းေသာ (သို႔) မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ဖြယ္ အခန္း၊ ေနရာ။ I don't know why you want to live here— it's a dreadful hole! ၃။ [sing] ( sl ) က်ဥ္းထဲက်ပ္ထဲ။ I'm afraid I'm in a bit of a hole. ၄။ [C] ( sport ) (က) က်င္း။ an eighteen-hole golf-course. ❍ GOLF (ခ) က်င္း။ က်င္းအေရအတြက္။ a short hole ❍ win the first hole. See also BLACK HOLE, BLOW-HOLE, WATER-HOLE v ၁။ ေဖာက္သည္။ The ship was holed by an iceberg. ၂။ ~ (out) (ေဂါက္သီး စသည္ ကစားရာတြင္) ေဘာလံုးကိုက်င္းထဲသို႔ ႐ိုက္သြင္းသည္။ She holed out from forty yards. ❍ He needs to hole this putt to win the hole. ❏ be holed up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ပုန္းေအာင္းသည္။ The gang are holed up in the mountains somewhere. ❏ hole in one n (ေဂါက္သီး႐ိုက္ရာတြင္) တစ္ခ်က္တည္းျဖင့္ က်င္းဝင္ျခင္း။ do a hole in one. ❏ make a hole in sth [ IDM ]( infml ) အကုန္အက်မ်ားသည္။ The hospital bills made a big hole in his savings.

Examples

1. Workers dug a 30-foot hole in the ground.
2. [rabbit/mouse hole] : A grassy bank containing several rabbit holes
3. [hole in] : All my socks have holes in them.
4. [a gaping hole] : Rain poured through a gaping hole in the roof.
5. [riddled with holes] : The tank was riddled with bullet holes.
6. His argument was full of holes.
7. [hole in] : There is an obvious hole in the law covering pension funds.
8. This town is a hole.