"outhole" meaning in English

See outhole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: outholes [plural]
Etymology: out + hole Etymology templates: {{compound|en|out|hole}} out + hole Head templates: {{en-noun}} outhole (plural outholes)
  1. (pinball) The hole at the bottom of a pinball table where each ball is eventually lost. Categories (topical): Pinball Synonyms: drain

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for outhole meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "hole"
      },
      "expansion": "out + hole",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "out + hole",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outholes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outhole (plural outholes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pinball",
          "orig": "en:Pinball",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 April 17, Billboard, page 117",
          "text": "Marvel's latest product is highlighted by an outhole feature which is specifically designed to give the players peak interest until after the final ball in each game has come to a complete stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hole at the bottom of a pinball table where each ball is eventually lost."
      ],
      "id": "en-outhole-en-noun-fFF2tFPa",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinball",
          "pinball"
        ],
        [
          "hole",
          "hole"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pinball",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pinball) The hole at the bottom of a pinball table where each ball is eventually lost."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drain"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outhole"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "hole"
      },
      "expansion": "out + hole",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "out + hole",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outholes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outhole (plural outholes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Pinball"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 April 17, Billboard, page 117",
          "text": "Marvel's latest product is highlighted by an outhole feature which is specifically designed to give the players peak interest until after the final ball in each game has come to a complete stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hole at the bottom of a pinball table where each ball is eventually lost."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pinball",
          "pinball"
        ],
        [
          "hole",
          "hole"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pinball",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pinball) The hole at the bottom of a pinball table where each ball is eventually lost."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drain"
    }
  ],
  "word": "outhole"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.