loophole
loohp hohl
- n an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
- n a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
- MAHLON JOHNSON: Searching for an HIV "loophole" by dosing himself with highly toxic AIDS drugs.
- By a unanimous vote, the Bundesrat, the upper house of the West German Parliament, last week passed a law clos ing the legal loophole through which as-yet-undetected German war .
- Take the example of the most notorious tax loophole that exists in our law today.