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
  • Park and his colleagues went looking for the records of that catastrophe in the mud taken from the bottom of a small crater lake on the Kenya-Tanzania border.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Korean lunar orbiter spots Falcon 9 crash site The collision was expected to create a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep and throw a plume of dust and rock outward into the air.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of crater
Noun
  • Unlike conventional nuclear plants, Deep Fission’s design places a pressurized water reactor about one mile below the surface inside a deep borehole.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • What The Other 100% Looks Like ​ In a place called Kelelwa, Kenya, our organization rehabilitated a colonial-era borehole and powered it with an electric pump.
    — Sarah Evans, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of borehole
Noun
  • Lower courts had tossed out the last-ditch appeals to save Bruce by concluding the animal rescue lacked a concrete interest in the dog's survival sufficient to challenge the dangerousness finding by local authorities.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Arlington police are investigating the death of a 42-year-old man after his car swerved off the road and ended up in a ditch Sunday afternoon.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of ditch
Noun
  • Go skiing in Gudauri, trek through Tusheti, or wander in the ancient cave cities of Vardzia and Uplistsikhe.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls, offering new clues about the people behind prehistoric art.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of cave
Noun
  • At 1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, a 2019 condo building sits atop 153 geothermal wells.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Then, while working with the government of Canada to monitor groundwater, in 2023, Ruff and his colleagues detected O2 in deep wells beneath Alberta.
    — James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of well
Noun
  • The Stockton Fire Department said two bodies were recovered from a construction trench that collapsed on Saturday morning.
    — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • After working for more than a decade in club music’s trenches, the brothers now aspired to be not merely DJs, but a dance-music act known for spectacular live performances.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of trench
Noun
  • Take this seasonal, spicy noodle bowl made with zucchini and chili crisp, for example.
    — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After two straight seasons in which KU finished 5-7, can the Jayhawks get back to bowl contention?
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of bowl

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“Chuckhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chuckhole. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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