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Definitions: Hole Up |
Hole UpVerb1. Remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study". 2. Score a hole in one, in golf. 3. Sleep during winter, as of certain animals, such as bears. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Hole UpSynonym: hibernate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: estivate (v). (additional references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Old swimming hole up South Fork, Breathitt. County, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hole up | 2 |
diggin hole up | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hole up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крия се (absent oneself, darkle, hide, lurk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zalézt, ukrýt se (go into hiding, shelter), přezimovat v brlohu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verstecken (cache, conceal, encryption, ensconce, hide, hide away, occuring, shelter, stash, to cache, to ensconce, to hide, to stash), sich verschanzen (barricade oneself, entrench oneself, take cover), sich verkriechen (creep away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elrejtőzik (to abscond, to couch, to go into hiding, to hole up, to keep out of sight, to lay low, to play injun, to secrete oneself, to shelter, to take cover), dekkol (to hole up, to lay low). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olehay upay retirarse a (go out, pull out, walk out), refugiarse (shelter oneself, take cover), ocultarse (abscond, conceal, defilade, disappear, evanish, go in, hide, hide oneself, hide out, hide up, lie up, sink), esconderse (abscond, burrow, go in, go to earth, hide, hide away, lie up, skulk). (various references) yuvasına girmek (hole), kapanmak (be closed, be shut, be suspended, cicatrize, cloister, close down, close up, fold, fold up, go into liquidation, hole, overcast, overcloud, scar over, shut, shut to), köşesine çekilmek (hole, retire to pasture, retreat, sequester oneself), deliğe girmek (hole). (various references) жити самітно, перебувати у зимовій сплячці. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: loupe, ouphe. | |
-2 letters: helo, help, hole, holp, hope, lope, loup, ouph, pole, pule. | |
-3 letters: hep, hoe, hop, hue, hup, leu, lop, ole, ope, peh, poh, pol, pul, upo. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, op, pe, uh, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: hopeful. | |
+2 letters: hopefuls, ploughed, plougher, sulphone, upholder. | |
+3 letters: flophouse, hopefully, playhouse, ploughers, sulphones, turophile, unhopeful, upholders, upholster. | |
+4 letters: acephalous, audiophile, flophouses, houseplant, neutrophil, pilothouse, playhouses, turophiles, unpolished, upholsters, upholstery. | |
+5 letters: ailurophile, ailurophobe, audiophiles, autocephaly, blasphemous, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, diadelphous, hopefulness, houseplants, neutrophils, nucleophile, patchoulies, pilothouses, preluncheon, punchinello, reproachful, reupholster, sulphureous, superschool, upholstered, upholsterer, xerophilous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 6C 65      55 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o l e   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 006C 0065      0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4281787125582 |
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