foxhole
a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area.
Origin of foxhole
1Words Nearby foxhole
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use foxhole in a sentence
Even his friends who adored the EMT lifestyle, with its sense of purpose and foxhole camaraderie, usually ended up leaving after two or three years.
The Broken Front Line | by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks | April 7, 2021 | ProPublicaI think there’s an awareness that we’re in the foxhole together, and there’s not a lot of us, and we’re being assaulted, and so you’ve got to be together.
‘We’re in the foxhole together’: House Democrats reckon with a diminished majority | Mike DeBonis | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post[He tears off the tape] They stole into my foxhole at night and covered my face with Scotch tape.
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut what if a soldier had my book in their foxhole: would they curse me or thank me?
Some colleagues viewed him as “calm, friendly, collected, a foxhole type of guy.”
So he would go from foxhole to foxhole and, by any means, would get his men to fight.
Nor is he likely to be found, as Saddam Hussein was, cowering in a covered foxhole.
A grenade had come flying into the foxhole where Dane and Harding had felt reasonably safe.
Dead Ringer | Lester del ReyWith morning he was half a mile away, in a foxhole less than sixty yards from the massive outer perimeter of the arena.
Stalemate | Basil Eugene WellsThe foxhole had two entrances, both well-concealed, and he had rigged elaborate warning devices should the vicinity be approached.
Stalemate | Basil Eugene WellsThe shower of rock is somewhat reminiscent of Ungava's meteor spray or splintered debris forced down a soldier's foxhole.
The Land of Look Behind | Paul Cameron BrownAnd while an officer wouldn't be expected to pitch a tent, he would dig his own foxhole, unless he was well up in grade.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense
British Dictionary definitions for foxhole
/ (ˈfɒksˌhəʊl) /
military a small pit dug during an action to provide individual shelter against hostile fire
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse