stripping hole

1. A water filled hole left over from surface mining, ranging in size from a large puddle, to the size of a lake. Used as illegal swimming holes, and to dump stolen cars into. 2. Any hole, dry or water filled, leftover from surface mining.

Derived from stripping pit and swimming hole.

1. Kids in the Anthracite Coal Region always swim, in the stripping holes west of the Poconos.

2. A stripping hole, doesn't always have to have water in it.

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