if you hole up or are holed up somewhere, you stay there, especially because you are hiding
He probably figured he could hole up here and no one would find him.
Listen, I understand if you can't face going away anywhere, but why don't you hole up with us at the vicarage for a
Now she and Lawrence were going to hole up in Belvoir for the night -- at her aunt's house -- and respray the Volvo green in the morning.
She was holed up in the mountains somewhere, trying to avoid the media.
The barn was as good a place as any to hole up for the night.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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