Usually means: Opening for inserting and turning key.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word keyhole:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. keyhole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. keyhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keyhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keyhole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. keyhole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Keyhole, keyhole: Wordnik
  7. keyhole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. keyhole: Wiktionary
  9. keyhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. keyhole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. keyhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Keyhole, keyhole: Dictionary.com
  13. keyhole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Keyhole (disambiguation), Keyhole (film), Keyhole, The Keyhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Keyhole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. keyhole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. keyhole: Rhymezone
  18. keyhole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. keyhole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. keyhole: Free Dictionary
  21. keyhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. keyhole: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. keyhole: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. keyhole, keyhole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Keyhole: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
noun:  Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.
noun:  A small incision through which surgical instruments can reach into an anatomic space beyond.
noun:  A circle cut out of a garment as a decorative effect, typically at the front or back neckline of a dress.
noun:  (carpentry) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key that fastens them.
noun:  (engineering) A mortise for a key or cotter.
noun:  (lasers) A transient column of vapor or plasma formed when using high energy beams, such as lasers, for welding or cutting.
noun:  (metallurgy) A welding method in which a hole forms in the surface immediately ahead of the puddle in the direction of welding. The hole is filled as the weld progresses.
noun:  (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line; key.
noun:  (astronomy) A gravitational keyhole.
verb:  (firearms) To strike a target after wobbling in flight so that the long axis of the bullet does not follow the line of flight, typically due to insufficient spin resulting from the rifling in the barrel.

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