Usually means: Seek refuge, often hiding indoors.
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  1. hole up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hole up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hole up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hole up: Vocabulary.com
  5. hole up (somewhere): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hole up: Wiktionary
  7. hole up: Dictionary.com
  8. hole up: Rhymezone
  9. hole up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hole up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hole up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hole up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hole up: Idioms

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  1. hole up, hole up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hole up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hole up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
▸ verb:  (originally US, intransitive) To hide.

Similar:
hibernate, take refuge, hovel, bunker down, hunker down, hole, inshelter, shelter, encave, closet, more...

Opposite:
ventilate, expose, uncover, reveal, display

Phrases:
to hole up, more...

Adjectives:
bosom, stoor, stuck up, trapped, wood, retiary, stucke, stuck, stour, hamstrung, dragging

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Similar:
hibernate, take refuge, hovel, bunker down, hunker down, hole, inshelter, shelter, encave, closet, more...

Opposite:
ventilate, expose, uncover, reveal, display

Phrases:
to hole up, more...

Adjectives:
bosom, stoor, stuck up, trapped, wood, retiary, stucke, stuck, stour, hamstrung, dragging



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