0 a small, round doughnut (= a circular cake fried in hot fat), often made from the part cut out of the middle of a larger, ring-shaped doughnut: --
There is a chocolate fountain with strawberries, doughnut holes, marshmallows, and pretzels for dipping.
1 for people on a particular kind of Medicare plan for prescription drugs (= ones that can only be bought if a doctor orders them for you), the fact of having to pay for a drug because its cost is between two levels at which the cost will be paid by their plan: --
Opponents have denounced the "doughnut hole" of non-coverage within the full Medicare drug benefit, which began in 2006.
Some economists say that with proper planning, some patients who entered the doughnut hole this year could have avoided it.
The infamous "doughnut hole" in the plan's coverage leaves seniors without a pharmaceutical benefit after drug costs reach $2,251, until it kicks in again when costs reach $5,100.
His first job was plucking circles from the center of rounds of dough - in other words, making the doughnut holes.
Doughnut holes sold by the Canadian coffee chain Tim Horton's are known as "Timbits."
To make these delicious treats you need plain store-bought doughnut holes.
