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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Against the all-too-real chance of revolution, Per�n also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The first one had fallen backward, supported by the side of the 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
He did not run; and he only hurried, because he wanted to get really established in his "funk hole" before it grew too dark to see what he was doing.
From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by
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