Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small underground hiding place, especially a concealed or camouflaged pit used for ambushing or sniping at enemy troops.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hailed as a Hero for dragging Saddam from spiderhole, new film follow-up at Journey Man documentaries.
Hailed as a Hero for dragging Saddam from spiderhole, new film follow-up at Journey Man documentaries. Michael Caddell 2009
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Fightin' Cock Flyer: Hailed as a Hero for dragging Saddam from spiderhole, new film follow-up at Journey Man documentaries.
Hailed as a Hero for dragging Saddam from spiderhole, new film follow-up at Journey Man documentaries. Michael Caddell 2009
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Or the tranquil comfort of pulling the covers over your own spiderhole.
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Now that the former Iraqi dictator is spending his days in Hell's spiderhole writing bad poetry, unless Al-Qaeda operatives are as adept with an Ouija board as they are with IEDs, there's never been a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam.
Bill Katovsky: Waiting for the Other Terror Shoe to Drop 2008
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In reality (ah, "reality" -- what a nasty word!), the shock-and-awe attacks used on Iraq got not a single leader of the Saddamist regime, not one of that pack of 52 cards (including of course the ace of spades, Saddam Hussein, found in his "spiderhole" so many months later).
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If it was there, it would have been used before Saddam crawled into his spiderhole.
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The low point that year came on December 14, after Saddam was captured in a spiderhole near Tikrit.
The New York Times's Lonely War Mnookin, Seth 2008
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I heard that the last time Jean Schmidt (R-Broomstick Over Kansas) mooned someone her cootchie was mistaken for Saddam Hussein just after he was dragged out of the spiderhole.
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“Deposed drugged former tyrant emerges from spiderhole”
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Lou Reed on Net Neutrality 2006
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Fear not -- Bush says that after he gits bin Laden (and clears some more brush), he's gonna smoke that terra-rist 'Sue Nammi' out of her spiderhole.
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