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.
- 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.