• Finnish: läpäistä, rei'ittää, tehdä reikä
• Swedish: göra hål i, slå hål i, punktera (something inflated)

Hole or Holes may refer to:

• a partial lack in the area of an object
• an individual section of a golf course
• Black hole, an object with an immense gravitational field
  • White hole, the time reversal of a black hole
• Electron hole, in physics and electronics, the absence of an electron in the valence band.
• News hole
• Ozone hole, in climate and environmental sciences, a large and seasonal decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions since the late 1970's (see ozone depletion, too).
• Punchhole, for filing paper
• Hole cards in Poker
• Memory hole, which has multiple meanings
• Portable hole, a device used in animated cartoons and games
• Hole (football), a region or position in a football team formation
• In horse racing, a horse's post position in the starting gate
• Shortened form of hollow, meaning a valley
• "The hole", a slang term for solitary confinement

In arts:

• Holes (novel), a novel by Louis Sachar
  • Holes (film), a 2003 movie based on the novel
  • Holes (play), a play written by Louis Sachar based on the novel
• Hole (band), a musical group formed by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, disbanded in 2002
• Hole (album), an album by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
• Hole (Merzbow album), an album by Merzbow
• Hole (EP), an EP by 65daysofstatic
• Holes (song), a song by Mercury Rev on their 1998 album Deserter's Songs
• "Hole", a song by Kelly Clarkson on her 2007 album My December

In places:

• Hole, Norway, a municipality in Buskerud, Norway
• Hole (River), a feature of Whitewater rivers

See also

• Ace in the Hole
• Fire in the hole
• In the hole
• Toad in the hole

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