funk hole

noun

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

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Meanings

nounfunk hole (plural funk holes)

plural funk holes

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

    All along the trench men were crawling out of funk holes.

    1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 138
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    Major Whittlesey came out of his funk hole, and went among the men, spreading the cheering words.

    1919, Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories Inc., p332 from the Story of the Lost Battalion

    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.

    1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 237

    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.

    1965, Charles Carrington, Soldier From the Wars Returning
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APA

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