Western-backed FSA brigades in northern Syria are now holed up in three pockets: in Aleppo, and to the west and north of the city.
Brooks: We holed up in the Bel Air Hotel, where Gene was staying, and we acted all the parts out.
A group of protestors were holed up inside a hall beside the mosque.
Until then, the students are mostly keeping away from the press, holed up in their hotel rooms watching television and sleeping.
One local photographer was holed up in a café when police threatened to gas the place unless the crowd huddled there left.
It wa'n't good for him to be holed up out there in them hills all his life.
I should say it would be safe to assume the Waernu are holed up in Michaels' home.
This mythical Wells gang could have been holed up in the city, too, you know.
A, who was in well-deserved trouble all the way, holed out in ten.
He holed up one day, until it really hit him that he couldn't get any more.
Old English hol "orifice, hollow place, cave, perforation," from Proto-Germanic *hul (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German hol, Middle Dutch hool, Old Norse holr, German hohl "hollow," Gothic us-hulon "to hollow out"), from PIE root *kel- (see cell).
As a contemptuous word for "small dingy lodging or abode" it is attested from 1610s. Meaning "a fix, scrape, mess" is from 1760. Obscene slang use for "vulva" is implied from mid-14c. Hole in the wall "small and unpretentious place" is from 1822; to hole up first recorded 1875. To need (something) like a hole in the head, applied to something useless or detrimental, first recorded 1944 in entertainment publications, probably a translation of a Yiddish expression, cf. ich darf es vi a loch in kop.
"to make a hole," Old English holian "to hollow out, scoop out" (see hole (n.)). Related: Holed; holing.
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ace in the hole, big hole, brown, bunghole, cornhole, in a hole, in the hole, the nineteenth hole, not know one's ass from one's elbow, rathole
