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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hole in a cask, keg, or barrel through which liquid is poured in or drained out.
  • noun Vulgar Slang The anus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hole or orifice in a cask through which it is filled, closed by a bung.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See bung, n., 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of bung-hole.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun vulgar slang for anus
  • noun a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it

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  • The bungholes sprang open and a huge dull flood leaked out, flowing together, winding through mudflats all over the level land, a lazy pooling swirl of liquor bearing along wideleaved flowers of its froth.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 5

    December 31, 2006

  • I can't ever see or hear this word again without thinking of Lyndon Johnson. This ought to explain it.

    December 24, 2008

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    December 24, 2008

  • Did you listen to the recording or read the transcript? The recording is so much funnier (IMHO).

    December 24, 2008

  • The recording trumps the transcript by far.

    December 24, 2008

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    January 23, 2010

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    March 24, 2010

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    March 24, 2010

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    March 24, 2010

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    March 24, 2010

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    March 24, 2010