hole in one

noun phrase

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Resort staff also reported a hole in one wall, damage to several others, stains on the carpet and two missing chairs. Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026 New to Taste of Oak Brook this year is a golf simulator that offers a chance to win $2,500 for a hole in one, and prizes of a round of golf for four people at the Oak Brook Golf Club along with a 2027 membership to the village’s Bath & Tennis Club for a closest-to-the hole competition. Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 The viewer is also invited to shake hands with a stranger through a hole in one canvas and hammer a nail into another one. Julie L. Belcove, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026 There is also the risk that a micrometeoroid could punch a hole in one of the heat-resistant outer tiles on the Orion spacecraft, NASA's crew capsule for the agency's Artemis moon missions, undermining its ability to survive the intense furnace of reentry, per NASA. Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 June 2026 Some golfers go their whole lives without a hole in one. Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026 Norr used a 9-iron for his hole in one on the 159-yard hole at Woodley Lakes. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Video from the scene shows a bullet hole in one of the windows. Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026 Were the Browns supposed to dig themselves out of a multiyear hole in one season? Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hole in one was in 1925

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“Hole in one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hole%20in%20one. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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