funk hole

noun

1. military a dugout
2. a job that affords exemption from military service

Example Sentences

He was standing at the entrance of a cosy little funk-hole, his boots and tunic undone, sniffing the morning nitro-glycerine.

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No gain was made by this sortie and we drew back to our funk-hole position awaiting further developments.

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Its lovely to come to as a sort of funk-hole of peacebut my holy aunt!What the blazes are you laughing at?

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Titch, our little Cockney cook, proceeded one day to make us some tea by the aid of four candles in a funk-hole.

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When I reached the front line I crawled in a funk hole and waited for dawning and for our own troops to come along.

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