Pothole (disambiguation)
A pothole is a surface disruption in a roadway, caused by fatigue and erosion.
Pothole may also refer to:
- A small deep hole dug to look for buried public utilities: see vacuum excavation
- Any pot-shaped pit or hole.
Geomorphology and Geology
- Pothole (geology), a phenomenon encountered in the platinum mining industry in South Africa
- Pothole (landform), evorsion, swirlhole, or giant's kettle, a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow created by water erosion of bedrock.
- Pothole, or panhole, a shallow solution basin, or closed depression, found on flat or gently sloping rock.
- Pothole (lake), A shallow depression, often containing an intermittent pond or marsh and serving as a nesting place for waterfowl in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America.
- Pothole, or pit cave, a predominantly vertical cave system
Slang
- A nineteenth century informal term for anus
Writing
- A type of hyperlink where the anchor is a word in a series of text, used by bloggers to save space and keep from cluttering up their posts with many URLs: see Internet Slang
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See also
- Potholes, California
- Pothole, the upper section of Bull Shoals Lake, Missouri
- Potholes Reservoir, Washington state
- Potholing, or caving - spelunking
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