Definitions
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- noun a
small orobscure place , especially such arestaurant - noun colloquial, chiefly UK an
automated teller machine (ATM)
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- noun a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place
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Examples
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It's Saturday night and both Nick and Norah are at a hole-in-the-wall club where their paths cross for the first time.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Messenger by Edward Lee - I happened upon a couple of Edward Lee novels at a hole-in-the-wall used-book store.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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In my search to find an old hole-in-the-wall, B&B is a great new find.
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We all started out wanting to find that hole-in-the-wall with kick-ass food that beats out the generic Midtown spots, and I have to say that Loving Hut kind of fits the bill.
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Give me a real hole-in-the-wall Mexican place or Taco Bell instead!
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Whenever I have moved to a different area of Los Angeles, or to a new city even, it's not the new Top Chef-helmed gourmet restaurants that I miss the most, but the local dive bars and hole-in-the-wall restaurants.
Tara Settembre: Local Celebs' Favorite Hidden Gems in LA Tara Settembre 2011
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Imagine the thrill, then, to find a series of well preserved Mexican-made lobby cards of young Flynn in The Son of Captain Blood (El Hijo del Capitán Sangre) in a small (almost hole-in-the-wall) secondhand bookstore in Mexico City - which is what your humble correspondent did quite recently and yes (in case it hadn't occurred to you), your humble correspondent is a Sean Flynn fan.
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Imagine the thrill, then, to find a series of well preserved Mexican-made lobby cards of young Flynn in The Son of Captain Blood (El Hijo del Capitán Sangre) in a small (almost hole-in-the-wall) secondhand bookstore in Mexico City - which is what your humble correspondent did quite recently and yes (in case it hadn't occurred to you), your humble correspondent is a Sean Flynn fan.
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At the local hole-in-the-wall pharmacy, you don't know how long it's been on the shelf, if it was handled and stored properly, or if it's not a worthless imitation.
Reality Knocks 2009
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Across the street is an incredible Indian hole-in-the-wall, Chandni Food.
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