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cornhole

noun

  1. type of lawn game or sport in which players toss beanbags toward a slanted platform with the aim of passing the beanbag through a hole in the center of the platform
  2. vulgar slang term for the anus
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verb

  1. slang vulgar term meaning to have anal intercourse with
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/

noun

Etymology: From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

  1. A small room connected to a threshing floor.

    The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.

    A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.

  2. A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.

    Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.

    Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.

  3. The anus.

verb

Etymology: From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

  1. To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.

    He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.