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funk hole en · NOUN

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1. (slang) A concealed place where one can hide in safety, especially during a war; a dugout.
   • If you could reach your funk-hole, and crouch in it, there was a fair chance of your coming out of it alive next day to run the gauntlet of the Bapaume Road again. 1965, Charles Carrington, Soldier From the Wars Returning:
   • All along the trench men were crawling out of funk holes. 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 138:
   • Major Whittlesey came out of his funk hole, and went among the men, spreading the cheering words. 1919, Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories Inc., p332 from the Story of the Lost Battalion
   • The cellar was comfortably furnished as it had apparently been used as a funk-hole before, and by people of more importance than its present occupants. 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 237:

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