ice holes
Winter fishing spots
Ice holes are openings cut or melted through frozen water, typically for ice fishing, winter swimming, or rescuing someone who has fallen through.
Anglers drill ice holes with augers to drop lines into the water below: We drilled a dozen ice holes before dawn.
The term also functions as a minced oath—a euphemistic way to call someone an asshole while maintaining plausible deniability: Those ice holes cut me off in traffic.
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
- augerSpiral hole-maker
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- lakeEnclosed body of freshwater
- winterYear's coldest quarter
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- ice fishingtip-up, tip-ups, auger, augers, fish house
- Polar SeasArctic Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Southern Ocean, polar seas