Definitions for dugout

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dugout dug·out

Spelling: [duhg-out]

IPA: /ˈdʌgˌaʊt/

Dugout is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in dugout (dgotuu).

Definitions for dugout

noun

1. a boat made by hollowing out a log.
2. Baseball. a roofed structure enclosed on three sides and with the fourth side open and facing the playing field, usually with the floor below ground level, where the players sit when not on the field.
3. a rough shelter or dwelling formed by an excavation in the ground, in the face of a bank, in the side of a hill, etc., especially one used by soldiers.

Origin of dugout

1715-25, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase dug out

Examples for dugout

It was his first acquaintance with a dugout, nor was he impressed with the comfort it displayed.

He sported hair curlers in the dugout, took handfuls of amphetamines before games, and pitched a no-hitter on LSD.

A flood of wintry sunshine suffused the interior of the dugout.

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

One afternoon, with [Babe] Dahlgren near him in the dugout, a photographer asked Lou if he could take a photo of the two of them.

I didn't wait for more, but scrambled out of the dugout as fast as I could.

I caught the body, pulled it back into the dugout, but it was too late.

During the season, he regularly takes a dugout seat where he can work on his tan.

When he gets back to the dugout he'll tell us why before we can ask.

He might even have wondered how the logs of that dugout had been hauled to the shelf on which it stood.