| Liked |
| Spaded |
| Delved |
| Went for |
| Relished |
| Got into |
| Trenched |
| Troweled |
| Was into |
| Shoveled |
| Burrowed |
| Excavated |
| Made holes |
| Used spade |
| Grooved on |
| Liked loads |
| Was keen on |
| Made a hole |
| Like, liked |
| Really liked |
| Had fun with |
| Broke ground |
| Used a spade |
| Understood... |
| Deemed groovy |
| Found groovy? |
| Got the point |
| Shoveled into |
| Used a trowel |
| Got the drift |
| Used a shovel |
| Really enjoyed |
| Enjoyed muchly |
| Got super into |
| Shifted ground |
| Used a backhoe |
| Deemed way cool |
| Found, with "up |
| Wielded a spade |
| Was really into |
| Really got into |
| Looked for clams |
| Went underground |
| Wielded a trowel |
| Did deep research |
| Employed a shovel |
| Found really neat |
| Liked, old-school |
| Made a ditch, say |
| Really liked, man |
| Considered groovy |
| Made a hole in one |
| Searched for clams |
| Did excavation work |
| Pinnick of King's X |
| Researched in depth |
| Understood: Colloq. |
| Found really groovy |
| Liked, hippie-style |
| Went after treasure |
| Made use of a shovel |
| Understood, slangily |
| Used a backhoe, e.g. |
| Worked with a shovel |
| Searched for fossils |
| Liked, like a beatnik |
| Went after hard facts |
| Thought it was groovy |
| Like, understood, man! |
| Considered groovy, man |
| Excavated (with "out") |
| Put oneself in a hole? |
| Really liked, slangily |
| Understood, to hippies |
| Understood archeology? |
| Did archaeological work |
| Sought buried gold, say |
| Thought was really cool |
| Understood archaeology? |
| Liked, as a hippie would |
| Scooped out with a shovel |
| Went after buried treasure |
| Participated in archaeology |
| Searched for buried treasure |
| Loved, as archaeological work? |
| Prepared to make a sandcastle, e.g. |
| 1990s animated series on Nickelodeon |