wormhole

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.

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!

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

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