DIG IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dig in mean? 

• DIG IN (verb)
  The verb DIG IN has 2 senses:

1. occupy a trench or secured area

2. eat heartily

  Familiarity information: DIG IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIG IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occupy a trench or secured area

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dig in; entrench

Context example:

The troops dug in for the night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eat heartily

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dig in; pitch in

Context example:

The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in

Hypernyms (to "dig in" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Mars, the planet that gives you the motivation to dig in, will be in ideal angle to that new moon, so you’ll be in a let’s-get-things-done mode.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have a thought, and I dig in one and another of the hills of snow. Soon I find the walls of the cabin, and I dig down to the door.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Well, in a year or two I'll send for you, and we'll dig in the Forum for relics, and carry out all the plans we've made so many times.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then he saw himself, sitting forward in the canoe as he had often sat in the past, dipping a paddle that waited Moti's word to dig in like mad when the turquoise wall of the great breaker rose behind them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What is it that they try to find? It is not gold. Never do they dig in the ground. I think a long time.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)