funk hole

See also: funkhole

English

Noun

funk hole (plural funk holes)

1. (military slang) A concealed place where one can hide in safety, especially during a war; a dugout.
   • 1919, Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories Inc., p332 from the Story of the Lost Battalion:

     Major Whittlesey came out of his funk hole, and went among the men, spreading the cheering words.

   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 237:

     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.

   • 1965, Charles Carrington, Soldier From the Wars Returning:

     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.

   • 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 138:

     All along the trench men were crawling out of funk holes.