hole in one

noun phrase

: ace entry 1 sense 4

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Resort staff also reported a hole in one wall, damage to several others, stains on the carpet and two missing chairs. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026 New to Taste of Oak Brook this year is a golf simulator that offers a chance to win $2,500 for a hole in one, and prizes of a round of golf for four people at the Oak Brook Golf Club along with a 2027 membership to the village’s Bath & Tennis Club for a closest-to-the hole competition. — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 The viewer is also invited to shake hands with a stranger through a hole in one canvas and hammer a nail into another one. — Julie L. Belcove, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026 There is also the risk that a micrometeoroid could punch a hole in one of the heat-resistant outer tiles on the Orion spacecraft, NASA's crew capsule for the agency's Artemis moon missions, undermining its ability to survive the intense furnace of reentry, per NASA. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for hole in one

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First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hole in one was in 1925

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“Hole in one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hole%20in%20one. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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hole in one

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