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Architecture
post in ground (construction); structure supported by posts sunk into the ground; earthfast
excavation; exhumation; digging up; unearthing
discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.); finding; unearthing
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
Idiomatic expression
to dig one's own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back
illegal digging; illegal mining; grave robbing; tomb robbing
digging deeply (below the surface); mining deep
probing deeply (issue, problem); investigating thoroughly
deepening relations
digging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing)
Derogatory
country bumpkin; yokel
well digging; well digger
prospecting; trial digging
Vulgar expression or word
to perform anal sex (between men); to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise
Colloquial; Usu. in the passive
to crash a car into the back of another; to rear-end
draining a pond, lake or ditch (esp. to remove fish, purify water, etc.)
cleaning a well
Proverb
to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell
Vulgar expression or word
to perform anal sex (between men); to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise
Colloquial
to crash a car into the back of another; to rear-end