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spider hole en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A small, usually camouflaged hole dug in the ground where someone can hide.
   • The ragged fugitive dragged from a spider hole near Tikrit in December 2003 was physically diminished - Saddam lost weight on the run - and the subsequent incarceration and near invisibility whittled his relevance. 2005 October 18, Rory Carroll, “Trial of the Century? Not for Iraqis”, in The Guardian:
   • The grenade launcher was passed to Davis, who fired a beehive round into the spider hole. 2006, Keith Nolan, House to House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, page 323:

Forms

Coordinates

foxhole · bolthole · doghole

Synonyms

foxhole