Usually means: Depression in road causing damage.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pothole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pothole: Merriam-Webster
  3. pothole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pothole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pothole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pothole: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pothole, pothole: Wordnik
  8. pothole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pothole: Wiktionary
  10. pothole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pothole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pothole: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pothole, pothole: Dictionary.com
  14. pothole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pothole (disambiguation), Pothole (geology), Pothole (landform), Pothole, The Pothole (Seinfeld), The Pothole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pothole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pothole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pothole: Rhymezone
  19. Pothole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pothole: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pothole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Pothole: The Word Detective
  23. pothole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pothole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pothole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See potholed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
noun:  A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
noun:  (geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
noun:  (archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
noun:  (Australia, mining) A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
noun:  (fandom slang, TV Tropes) A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.
noun:  A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.

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