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digs

British  
/ dɪɡz /

plural noun

  1. informal lodgings

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of digs

C19: shortened from diggings , perhaps referring to where one digs or works, but see also dig in

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Appeared in the December 13, 2025, print edition as 'Trump Digs In on Revamp of Golf Courses'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Digs elsewhere in the country have suffered budget cuts.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2023

Mr Hyde made the discoveries at an event organised by metal detecting group Down To Earth Charity Digs.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

“History must restore what slavery took away,” Arturo Schomburg wrote in his 1925 classic “The Negro Digs Up His Past” — a line this show prints above Velázquez’s portrait of Pareja.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Digs around and stretches a photo out to him.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

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