hole up
Verb

hole up

  1. (intransitive) To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
  2. (originally, US, intransitive) To hide.
    The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.
    • 2005, BBC News, Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 18:50 GMT:
      The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up.



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