digs

/ (dɪɡz) /


pl n
  1. British informal lodgings

Origin of digs

1
C19: shortened from diggings, perhaps referring to where one digs or works, but see also dig in

Words Nearby digs

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How to use digs in a sentence

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

    Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • What does it matter what he digs for; you know nothing about his business.

    An Old Man's Love | Anthony Trollope
  • Some poor miner usually finds a ledge of quartz-rock and digs down the way the ledge goes.

    Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
  • The ground squirrel, or chipmunk, digs holes in the ground, where he hides his winter's store of grain and nuts.

    Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
  • 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.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade