hole punch

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hole punch

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Alternative forms

holepunch (especially noun)
hole-punch (especially verb)

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Noun

hole punch (plural hole punches)

A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.

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Translations

tool

Arabic: خَرَّامَة f (ḵarrāma), خَرَّامَة وَرَق f (ḵarrāmat waraq)
Armenian: դակիչ (hy) (dakičʻ)
Azerbaijani: dəlgəc, dəlməkeş, deşikaçan
Belarusian: дзірако́л m (dzirakól)
Bulgarian: перфора́тор m (perforátor)
Catalan: perforadora f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 打窿機／打窿机 (yue) (daa² lung^4-1 gei¹), 釘窿機／钉窿机 (deng¹ lung^4-1 gei¹)

Mandarin: 打孔器 (zh) (dǎkǒngqì), 打孔機／打孔机 (zh) (dǎkǒngjī), 釘孔機／钉孔机 (dīngkǒngjī), 穿孔機／穿孔机 (zh) (chuānkǒngjī)
Czech: děrovačka (cs) f
Danish: hullemaskine c, hulapparat n
Dutch: perforator (nl) m
Esperanto: truilo
Estonian: auguraud
Faroese: holari m
Finnish: rei’ittäjä, rei’itin (fi)
French: perforateur (fr) m, perforatrice (fr) f, trouilloteuse (fr) f (colloquial), trouilloteur m (colloquial)
Georgian: სახვრეტელა (saxvreṭela)
German: Locher (de) m
Hebrew: מְחוֹרֵר (he) m (mekhorér), מְנַקֵּב (he) m (menakév)
Hindi: होल छिद्रक (hol chidrak), छेद पंच (ched pañc)
Hungarian: lyukasztó (hu)
Icelandic: gatari (is) m
Italian: perforatrice (it) f
Japanese: 穴開けパンチ (あなあけぱんち, ana-ake panchi), パンチャー (panchā), 穿孔機 (ja) (せんこうき, senkōki), パンチ (ja) (panchi)
Korean: 홀 펀치 (hol peonchi), 펀치 (peonchi), 천공기(穿孔機) (ko) (cheon'gonggi)
Luxembourgish: Locher
Macedonian: дупчалка f (dupčalka)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цоолтуур (mn) (cooltuur), нүхлэх машин (nüxlex mašin) (China), цоолох машин (coolox mašin) (China)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hullemaskin (no) m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: پانْچ (fa) (pânč), سوراخ‌کُن (surâx-kon)
Polish: dziurkacz (pl) m
Portuguese: perfuradora (pt) f
Romanian: perforator (ro) n
Russian: дыроко́л (ru) m (dyrokól), перфора́тор (ru) m (perforátor)
Slovak: dierovačka f
Slovene: luknjač m
Spanish: perforadora (es) f, máquina perforadora f
Swedish: hålslag (sv) n, hålslagare (sv) c, hålslagsapparat (sv) c
Turkish: delgeç (tr)
Ukrainian: діркопробива́ч m (dirkoprobyváč)
Yiddish: שטעכער m (shtekher)

Verb

hole punch (third-person singular simple present hole punches, present participle hole punching, simple past and past participle hole punched) (transitive)

To punch holes using a hole punch.
(computing, networking) To create a NAT, WAN-to-LAN port forwarding on the router.