funk hole

We cleared out into our funk holes, but no damage done."

During the day gas drills were carried out and funk holes dug.

There's nothing else but the alcoholic funk hole.

'Well, you can always go back to your funk hole,' said Hood bluntly.

Soldiers also made dugouts and funk holes in the side of the trenches to give them some protection from the weather and enemy fire.

Such hotels and guest houses became known as "funk holes" because their residents' actions were regarded as cowardice.

"The Funk Hole"

The mounted divisions lived here in semi-permanent bivouacs constructed from light, wooden hurdles, covered with grass mats, erected over rectangular pits dug (funk holes) in the ground which gave some protection from aerial bombing.

In "The Funk Hole," episode 4, season 2 of the Masterpiece television series Foyle's War, Sam complains that due to wartime food rationing, she has resorted to putting treacle in her tea.