The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word POT- which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Word before hole or holder crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| POT- | 100 % | 4 |
Why may POT be the right solution?
The word "POTHOLE" and "POTHOLDER" both start with "POT-", making it the right answer to the clue "Word before hole or holder."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Word before hole or holder
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Crossword Answer definitions
POT- noun- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
- Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot
- Ruin or deterioration.
- An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- A plaster cast.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- To be capable of being potted.
- To shoot with a firearm.
- To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
- To secure; gain; win; bag.
- To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- To tipple; to drink.
- To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- Marijuana
- A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- A large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch.
- A potbelly stove.
- A Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig.
- A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
- A shot taken at an easy or random target.
- Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
- An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- Marijuana
- A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
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