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digs

/ dɪɡz /

plural noun

Origin of digs¹

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

De Merode sits at a long table and digs into a plate piled with rice, beans, and avocado.

His digs on Lake Como are a local tourist attraction for women who wish they were Alamuddin.

The effectiveness of these pamphlets, and the awareness of its writers are apparent in one Lum digs up called “To Mothers.”

Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing.

After a few verbal digs about his undiagnosed OCD, I tossed it off the bed as a joke.

Its paws are large and well armed, with which it digs up plants, and sometimes dead bodies from their graves.

What does it matter what he digs for; you know nothing about his business.

Some poor miner usually finds a ledge of quartz-rock and digs down the way the ledge goes.

The ground squirrel, or chipmunk, digs holes in the ground, where he hides his winter's store of grain and nuts.

She finds a place where the snow is soft, and she digs and digs in it, and then lies down in it and covers herself up.

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