Word Meaning

digs definition and meaning

v. t. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
v. t. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
v. t. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
v. t. To thrust; to poke.
v. i. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
v. i. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
v. i. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
n. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
v. t. A plodding and laborious student.

Crossword clues for digs

- Archaeological site
- Break up the earth with a spade
- Burrow
- Cutting remark
- Delve into ground at first
- Excavate
- Get the picture of archeological site
- Make a hole with a spade
- Probe
- Sarcastic comment about archaeological site
- Snide aside
- Turn up earth or soil
- Use a spade
- Accommodation (slang)
- Cutting remarks about rented rooms
- Excavates
- Hoes
- Lodgings
- Uses a spade