dug‧out /ˈdʌɡaʊt/ noun [countable]

1. a low shelter at the side of a sports field, where players and team officials sit

2. a shelter dug into the ground for soldiers to use ⇒ trench

3. a small boat made by cutting out a hollow space in a tree trunk:
a dugout canoe

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