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funk hole

noun

Definitions

  1. A concealed place where one can hide in safety, especially during a war

    A concealed place where one can hide in safety, especially during a war; a dugout.

    • Major Whittlesey came out of his funk hole, and went among the men, spreading the cheering words.
    • The cellar was comfortably furnished as it had apparently been used as a funk-hole before, and by people of more importance than its present occupants.
    • If you could reach your funk-hole, and crouch in it, there was a fair chance of your coming out of it alive next day to run the gauntlet of the Bapaume Road again.

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