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Definition of a hole in the wall

hole in the wall    

adjective

  • of a business, small and often decrepit.
    He always gets pho from this hole in the wall Vietnamese restaurant.

    Last edited on Sep 11 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 11 2018.

noun

  • a small, often decrepit business.
    My favorite bar is this hole in the wall off of Broadway.
    He always gets pho from this Vietnamese hole in the wall.

    Last edited on Sep 11 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Definitions include: a massive disaster.
Definitions include: good; well.

Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':

Definitions include: a person attaches themselves to high profile task or project in order to enhance their own career.
Definitions include: to share business details.
Definitions include: a fictional business report made popular by the film "Office Space" and used in the TV show "Lost."
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Definitions include: "I see".
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Definitions include: fully equipped and ready to go.

Other terms relating to 'small':

Definitions include: easy or unchallenging.
Definitions include: underpowered.
Definitions include: small.
Definitions include: affectionate form of reference or address for one's significant other.
Definitions include: suffix indicating a small version of something.
Definitions include: very small.
Definitions include: ghetto
Definitions include: very small.
Definitions include: "little".

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Other terms relating to 'hole':

Definitions include: the clubhouse bar at a golf course.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: the anus.
Definitions include: extremely drunk.
Definitions include: a fictional location used to denote a place that is very remote.
Definitions include: See asshole.
Definitions include: vagina.
Definitions include: butthole/jackass
Definitions include: anus.
Definitions include: mouth.
Definitions include: a garage.
Definitions include: a vagina.
Definitions include: to engage in anal sex on the giving end.
Definitions include: the entrance to the vagina.
Definitions include: jerk; "asshole".

Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
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Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
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Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
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Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'wall':

Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to face difficulties while trying to solve a problem.
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Definitions include: the police code of silence about misconduct and perjured testimony by other police, allowing them to follow illegal practices with impunity.
Definitions include: to feel agitated.
Definitions include: to severely aggravate someone.
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Definitions include: to get a person into a disadvantageous position.
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Definitions include: strange.
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Definitions include: to waste one's money.
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Definitions include: to present an idea and test the reaction.

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