dig out
Verb

dig out

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
    I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
  3. (transitive) To make something by digging.
    We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.
  4. (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
  5. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
    I'd like to dig her out.
  6. (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
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