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HOLE-IN-THE-WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hole-in-the-wall mean? 

HOLE-IN-THE-WALL (noun)
  The noun HOLE-IN-THE-WALL has 1 sense:

1. a small unpretentious out-of-the-way placeplay

  Familiarity information: HOLE-IN-THE-WALL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOLE-IN-THE-WALL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small unpretentious out-of-the-way place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

his office was a hole-in-the-wall

Hypernyms ("hole-in-the-wall" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)


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