1A trench or indentation used by a spider for rest or ambush.

1. 1.1 A small, rough excavation for concealing a person, as from an enemy.
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   • When we got to the area, we found a now exposed spider hole.
   • Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a spider hole, where I hide from current pop culture, and from the encroaching, inevitable future?
   • It may well be true that capturing him doesn't make America any safer than if he'd been left cowering in his spider hole for the next 50 years.
   • And in this part of his story, the translator for U.S. Special Forces recounts the night that he laid eyes on him hiding in that spider hole.
   • We used it as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE [high explosive] ‘munitions.’
   • We saw a much different image of the Iraqi leader when on camera, U.S. soldiers finally plucked him out of a spider hole after he'd spent months in hiding.
   • And every television correspondent, it seems, had to crawl into the spider hole for a live shot.
   • I hope that you are comfortable in your spider holes.
   • During the search, a spider hole was detected.
   • Nowadays they're just gone and nobody can find one, no matter how many spider holes they look in.
   • It wasn't fired as two men jumped up from their spider holes.
   • Found in a cramped spider hole, the once powerful president of Iraq was reduced to an unkempt figure, lonely, weak and defeated.
   • They are very good at ambushes and maneuvering when on the offensive, and defend their bunkers and spider holes tenaciously.