Meaning & use
bullet hole
A hole made in a surface or body when a bullet passes through it.
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Investigators counted three bullet holes in the wall behind the broken window.
The old barn door still had a bullet hole from a hunting accident decades earlier.
A note on using this word
Bullet hole is a straightforward compound noun and is usually written as two words, not hyphenated.
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