OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18857

foxhole

Meanings (ES + gloss)
zorrera
The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
trinchera
A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
Four pilots from the St. Lo, returning from a strike, land at the Dulag Airstrip and are promptly handed carbines, given a foxhole, and told to help repel a Japanese infantry count…
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 Comman…
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