(transitive) To remove something by digging.
The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
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(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in.
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(transitive) To make something by digging.
I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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