Word.ws English Dictionary

mouseholing

mouseholing noun: the urban warfare tactic of creating access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunnelling through a wall, so as to avoid the open streets.

Noun

mouseholing (uncountable)

  1. The urban warfare tactic of creating access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunnelling through a wall, so as to avoid the open streets.

Origin of mouseholing

From mousehole + -ing.

Questions about mouseholing

What does mouseholing mean?
Mouseholing means the urban warfare tactic of creating access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunnelling through a wall, so as to avoid the open streets.
What part of speech is mouseholing?
Mouseholing is a noun.

Words near mouseholing in the dictionary

  1. mousefuckers
  2. mousehawk
  3. mousehawks
  4. mousehole
  5. mouseholes
  6. mouseholing
  7. mousehood
  8. Mouseion
  9. Mouseketeer
  10. Mouseketeers
  11. mousekin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mouseholing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mouseholing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mouseholing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.