dugout
IPA: dˈʌgaʊt
noun
- (nautical) A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
- (military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
- (baseball, soccer) A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
- (slang) A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.
- (Canadian Prairies) A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.
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Examples of "dugout" in Sentences
- Travel is often by dugout canoe.
- More troubling is the dugout stuff.
- Only player personnel in the dugout.
- Shacks and dugouts dotted the canyon.
- They preferred to remain in their dugout.
- A shell hits the trench and the dugout caves in.
- An embarrassed Horton crawled back into the dugout.
- The idea of elephants in the dugout is commically absurd.
- Believe me, you do that, the rest of their dugout is looking.
- From the grandstand to the dugout, everything in the park was wooden.
- A dugout or dugout canoe is a boat which is basically a hollowed tree trunk.
- The roof of the dugout is a particularly good position for interesting alternative shots.
- Cito was out on the bench about a half hour later when George Bell walked into the dugout from the clubhouse.
- It also means too many of those starters begin staring into the dugout from the mound when they reach the magic sixth inning.
- Right above our dugout was the Stanford cheering section, where all the family, friends and people associated with the university were sitting.
- He had ridden past a tiny, partly caved-in dugout, months ago, where some wandering prospector had camped while he braved the barrenness of the hills and streams hereabout.
- But the Twins 'old dugout is now filled with hundreds of blue folding chairs in long stacks, and Mr. Lester, in his 24th year in charge of the dome's day-to-day operation, admitted he feels a bit lonelier in the old place these days.
- Walking in front of Beltran through the dugout was his friend and successor in center field, Angel Pagan, and if Mets fans sometimes haven't fully appreciated Beltran's understated excellence during his tenure with the team, Pagan over the last two days gave them a taste of the alternative.
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