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chuckhole

noun

Definition of chuckholenext
as in water hole

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Recent Examples of chuckhole Warren and Lang — and sometimes up to five of their friends — spend their spare time fixing some of the worst chuckholes on side streets. — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chuckhole
  1. water hole
  2. crater
  3. borehole
  4. ditch
  5. cave
  6. well
  7. trench
  8. bowl
Noun
  • One of the reasons the water hole has been so favored is because radio waves in this frequency range are not absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There were about 50 of them and they were strung out over a wide, grassy plain near a water hole.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
Definition of water hole
Noun
  • Some scientists have even authored a paper that delves into studying the buckets of lunar material that would've been thrown outward as the impact happened; another team looked at how the region around the crater was altered due to the crash.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The crater — named for the late Thomas McGetchin, a former director of Houston’s Lunar and Planetary Institute — is three times bigger than the previous record-holder found by the LRO a decade ago.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of crater
Noun
  • Instead of constructing a large containment structure above ground, the company plans to place the reactor inside a borehole roughly one mile below the surface.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
  • These systems are not new; lots of buildings use this borehole technology, notably in Europe and Canada, though some use it just to drain heat into the ground without actively trying to pull it back later on.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of borehole
Noun
  • Treat standing water that cannot be eliminated, such as retention ponds or drainage ditches, with a mosquito larvicide.
    — Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The tribes also have worked together after rains to orchestrate rescue missions for chi that are trapped in puddles, offshoots and agricultural ditches.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of ditch
Noun
  • Wailea Canyon Activity Pool is a world of its own, with seven waterslides, a lazy river, caves, and a swim-up Grotto Bar, and between that and a daily calendar of cultural activities, families are well looked after.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
  • During the cave excursion, Kaz and some other guests ask to swim back to the boat.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of cave
Noun
  • The supervisor will weigh in on a new groundwater management plan to implement when the county’s current moratorium on new wells expires next year.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Natural springs abound and the Széchenyi Thermal Bath, a vast 1913 neo-Baroque style complex in the middle of City Park, has two wells that supply multiple indoor and outdoor pools.
    — Lucy Handley, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of well
Noun
  • Spanning from its practical origins to its present fashionable status, the Burberry trench represents the quintessential British influence on the fashion industry.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Stone tools, however, showed up in 10 layers of the same trench, suggesting the site was occupied from 190,000 to 70,000 years ago.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of trench
Noun
  • Set out a big bowl of salty, restaurant-style tortilla chips to go with it.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The limestone around the stadium’s perimeter gently swoops up and down in a move that recalls the gracefully curved bowl of Ryan Field’s earlier iteration.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of bowl

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“Chuckhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chuckhole. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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