Meanings
verbpick holes (third-person singular simple present picks holes, present participle picking holes, simple past and past participle picked holes)
present singular third person picks holes · participle present picking holes · participle past picked holes · past picked holes
- idiomaticintransitiveTo find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.
2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News
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pick holes. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20holes
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“pick holes.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20holes. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pick holes,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20holes.
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