cornhole

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US/ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/

noun

A small room connected to a threshing floor.

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Meanings

nouncornhole (countable and uncountable, plural cornholes)

plural cornholes

  1. UKcountabledateduncountableA small room connected to a threshing floor.

    A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.

    1981, J E C Peters, Discovering Traditional Farm Buildings, page 17 with illustration
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    The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.

    1969, J E C Peters, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, page 97
  2. USuncountableA game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.

    Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.

    2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114
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    Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.

    2009, F. Winternitz, S. Bellman, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati, page 230

    Synonyms: baggo, corn toss

  3. countableslanguncountablevulgarThe anus.
verbcornhole (third-person singular simple present cornholes, present participle cornholing, simple past and past participle cornholed)

present singular third person cornholes · participle present cornholing · participle past cornholed · past cornholed

  1. slangvulgarTo have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.

    He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.

    2006, Settling Accounts, Book Three: The Grapple, →ISBN

    Synonyms: sodomize

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.

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baggocorn toss

verbTo have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.

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Origin

From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

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