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Meaning:
Interjection:
- British|public school slang look out!; beware!
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Noun:
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- caving A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- drilling|uncountable Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- also|_|slang The vagina.
- mining A collapse or cave-in.
- nuclear physics A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- politics|often "Cave" A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
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Verb:
- mining In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- obsolete To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To surrender.
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