funk hole

The trench walls also harbor four “funk holes,” dugouts where soldiers retreated deeper into the earth, away from the weather, the metallic sound of digging and the mortars’ whistle and boom.

Most of them were in dugouts or funk holes, and did not make a severe resistance.

The spectacle of four or five men hurriedly tumbling for shelter into the same "funk hole," a wild whirl of arms and legs, has its absurd side and never fails to excite amusement.

He lay in shallow funk holes, conferring with his company and platoon commanders.

When I reached the front line I crawled in a funk hole and waited for dawning and for our own troops to come along.