DIGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digs mean? 

• DIGS (noun)
  The noun DIGS has 2 senses:

1. an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology

2. temporary living quarters

  Familiarity information: DIGS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diggings; digs

Hypernyms ("digs" is a kind of...):

excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad

Hypernyms ("digs" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

 Context examples 

If you hope to move or fix up your present digs, you might hear sudden, happy news that will help you advance your plans over the weekend of December 14-15.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

See where she digs by the wayside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also does he like bones. Bones are not good to eat. And this strange white man likes best the bones of long time ago which he digs out of the ground.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

All together, after repeated digs, its trousers pocket yielded four dollars and fifteen cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He digs up very many of these bones and brings them to the strange white man's camp.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You may be writing about auctions of these types of items, archeological digs, or old or new architecture (also ruled by Capricorn).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)