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foxhole

foxhole (plural foxholes)

1. (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
   • 1962: Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, page 378 (Columbia University Press)

     The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists?—?who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.??

2. (UK) an earth; the burrow in the ground where a red fox lives.

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