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  • noun Plural form of hideyhole.

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Examples

  • Due to deadlines, as I pen this Pulitzer-troubling column, the celebs are still lurking anonymously in their pre-CBB hideyholes, pondering if Richard Desmond's generous fee will be enough to compensate them for being filmed on CCTV tending to their pubic topiary or trying to have a bowel movement in a toilet with no lock while constipated on a diet of pickled onion Spooky Starships and economy pasta.

    Celebrity Big Brother: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • No hideyholes or secret compartments were visible.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

  • No hideyholes or secret compartments were visible.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

  • No hideyholes or secret compartments were visible.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

  • But squint your eyes a bit and pretend you're reading the National Enquirer (it's not hard) while digging this article about Muslim terrorists using breast and butt-cheek implants as bomb hideyholes.

    Boing Boing 2010

  • But squint your eyes a bit and pretend you're reading the National Enquirer (it's not hard) while digging this article about Muslim terrorists using breast and butt-cheek implants as bomb hideyholes.

    Boing Boing Kristie Lu Stout 2010

  • But squint your eyes a bit and pretend you're reading the National Enquirer (it's not hard) while digging this article about Muslim terrorists using breast and butt-cheek implants as bomb hideyholes.

    Boing Boing 2010

  • Fellow’s rooms were glorious hideyholes, in which academics barricaded themselves from the world by means of books and papers.

    A Room of One’s Own « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

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