hole in the ground (noun)
111golf*/ — [gɒlf] noun [U] a game in which you use GOLF CLUBS to hit a small white ball into a hole in the ground I usually play a round of golf (= a game of golf) on Saturday.[/ex] golfer noun [C] …
112grav·el — /ˈgrævəl/ noun [noncount] : small pieces of rock a layer of gravel often used before another noun a gravel road [=a road with a top surface made of gravel] a gravel pit [=a large hole in the ground where gravel has been dug up] …
113landfill — land|fill [ lænd,fıl ] noun count landfill or landfill site a large hole in the ground where waste from people s homes or from industry is buried a. uncount the process of burying waste in a landfill b. uncount the waste buried in a landfill …
114gravlax — [ gravlaks] (also gravadlax) noun a Scandinavian dish of dry cured salmon marinated in herbs. Origin Swed., from grav trench + lax salmon (from the former practice of burying the salmon in salt in a hole in the ground) …
115excavate — verb (I, T) 1 to make a hole in the ground by digging up soil etc 2 discover something that was buried in the earth in an earlier time by digging for it: Schliemann excavated the ancient city of Troy. excavation noun (C, U) …
116blowout — UK [ˈbləʊaʊt] / US [ˈbloʊˌaʊt] noun [countable] Word forms blowout : singular blowout plural blowouts 1) an occasion when a tyre on a moving vehicle suddenly bursts We had a blowout on the motorway. 2) [usually singular] informal a celebration… …
117landfill — UK [ˈlæn(d)ˌfɪl] / US [ˈlændˌfɪl] noun [countable] Word forms landfill : singular landfill plural landfills landfill or landfill site a large hole in the ground where waste from people s homes or from industry is buried a) [uncountable] the… …
118hob|bit — «HOB iht», noun. 1. any one of an imaginary race of genial beings, small in stature, who love peace, pleasure, and beauty, created by the British writer J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 1973): »In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. (Tolkien). 2.… …
119badger — badg|er1 [ bædʒər ] verb transitive to try to make someone do something by asking them many times: PESTER: They keep badgering me to take them to the show. badger badg|er 2 [ bædʒər ] noun count a wild animal that lives in a hole in the ground… …
120ha-ha — 1 interjection 1 used in writing to represent a shout of laughter 2 spoken used, sometimes angrily, to show that you do not think something is funny: Oh, very funny, John, ha ha. 2 noun (C) a wall or fence set in a hole in the ground which… …
