dig out
Verb
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Verb
dig out
- (transitive) To remove something by digging.
- The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
- Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in.
- (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
- I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
- (transitive) To make something by digging.
- We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
- I'd like to dig her out.
- (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
- (have sexual intercourse with) coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
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