(intransitive) To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.
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(originally, US, intransitive) To hide.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money to go toward building the orange felon’s ballroom, with an impenetrable bunker underneath. The village idiot will hole up down there and refuse to vacate the premises when his bid for a third term fails.”
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