funk hole
Britishnoun
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military a dugout
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a job that affords exemption from military service
Example Sentences
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There is this tycoon, an old Walter Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila.
From Time Magazine Archive
About fifteen yards to my right front, shots came steadily from what I knew to be another funk hole.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
I tumbled out and approached several Americans standing near a funk hole.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
In the left-hand corner of the sketch will be noticed the firing platform, over which is the "funk hole," so called from its being the refuge to run to when the shells arrive.
From A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harvey, Harold
Then I made a sprint for my funk hole at record speed, arriving quite out of breath after covering about three-quarters of a mile.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George
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