bolt-hole

A form of bolthole — A hole in an animal’s den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit, i.e., a hole the animal may bolt through.

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Meanings

nounbolt-hole (plural bolt-holes)

plural bolt-holes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bolthole.

    “You are all over the show,” my friend texted me, and for weeks after I endured brutal mockery that my Parisian bolt-hole was about to become a tourist site, like Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone or the Harry Potter train station platform.

    2021 December 22, Jason Farago, “‘Emily in Paris’ and the City I Thought Was Mine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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APA

bolt-hole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bolt-hole

MLA

“bolt-hole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bolt-hole. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bolt-hole,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bolt-hole.

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