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dugout

 noun
     
Related topics: Sport, Army, Water
dug‧out [countable]
1DS a low shelter at the side of a sports field, where players and team officials sit
2PMA a shelter dug into the ground for soldiers to use [↪ trench]
3TTW a small boat made by cutting out a hollow space in a tree trunk:
a dugout canoe
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