dug out

Verb

dig out (third-person singular simple present digs out, present participle digging out, simple past and past participle dug out)

1. (transitive) To remove something by digging.
   • The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
2. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To find or retrieve something buried.
   • I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
3. (transitive) To make something by digging.
   • We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.
4. (US, intransitive, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
5. (slang, transitive) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
   • I'd like to dig her out.

   Synonyms:

   coitize

6. (transitive) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.