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toe hold

toe hold is the alternative form of toehold.

Meaning of toehold

Noun

toehold (plural toeholds)

  1. A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
    • Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 151
  3. A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.

Forms of toe hold

pluraltoe holds

Questions about toe hold

What is toe hold the alternative form of?
Toe hold is the alternative form of toehold.

Words near toe hold in the dictionary

  1. toe dragging
  2. toe drags
  3. toe drop
  4. toe edge
  5. toe edges
  6. toe hold
  7. toe holds
  8. toe in
  9. toe jam
  10. toe jams
  11. toe job

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toe hold (page history and authors); toehold (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.

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