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
A man the day before was digging a funk hole, and coming on something soft he plunged his spade into it.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by George Davidson
Our funk hole was all right for whizz-bangs and other fireworks of that sort, but no use against these portmanteaux they were now sending along.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
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 Inez Bigwood
The spectacle of four or five men hurriedly tumbling for shelter into the same "funk hole," a wild whirl of arms and legs, has its absurd side and never fails to excite amusement.
From The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' by Michael MacDonagh
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