digs

noun
🔊/dɪɡz/
🔊/dɪɡz/
[plural] (old-fashioned, informal)
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  1. a room or rooms that you rent to live in租住的住所;住处
    • I shared digs with him for two years.我和他一起挖了两年。
    • It was difficult to get digs in Manchester because there were so many students.在曼彻斯特很难挖东西,因为那里有很多学生。
    synonym lodgings
    Word Originlate 19th cent.: short for diggings, used in the same sense, probably referring to the land where a farmer digs, i.e. works and, by extension, lives.