wormhole

noun

1. A hole burrowed by a worm.

   “To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.”

   “But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.”

2. A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

   “[…]where there is a net flux of lines of force, through what topologists would call "a handle" of the multiply-connected space, and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a "wormhole".”

   “Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!”

   “I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.”

3. (slang)A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

verb

1. (transitive)To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels.