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swimming hole

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noun

a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.

Words nearby swimming hole

swimmers, swimming, swimming bath, swimming costume, swimming crab, swimming hole, swimming pool, swimming pool conjunctivitis, swimming pool granuloma, swimmingly, swimsuit

Origin of swimming hole

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

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Examples from the Web for swimming hole

The others said they reckoned so, too, and they all got down from the tree, and started for the swimming-hole.
The Flight of Pony Baker|W. D. Howells
One day when we ran away to the swimming-hole after school, this other little fellow didn't come back with us.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
At noon time the boys disappeared down toward the swimming-hole.
Understood Betsy|Dorothy Canfield
Another drawback to the ocean as a swimming-hole is that the distances are all wrong.
Back Home|Eugene Wood

"That'd be like learnin' to eat without grub," suggested Sube as the party moved off in the direction of the swimming-hole.
Sube Cane|Edward Bellamy Partridge

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