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spider hole

noun

  1. military a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides

“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


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Ka3 Na5, White’s peripatetic king appears to have found another defensible spider hole.

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The brigade’s first deployment to Iraq in 2003 culminated in the capture of the country’s fugitive dictator, Saddam Hussein, whom soldiers pulled from a spider hole in a small village.

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President Trump may be pulled from a “spider hole” and hanged in the vein of Saddam Hussein if Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s prognosticator skills are as advertised.

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Hussein, the former leader of Iraq, was pulled from a “spider hole” in 2003 after the U.S. invasion and was ultimately hanged by his own people in 2006.

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"The Republican Party is not going to be saved by hiding in a spider hole," Bolton told CNN on Sunday.

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