Definition of "foxhole"

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 Commandment in their desperation.

1962, Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880-1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, Columbia University Press, page 378

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 counterattack. With that job done, with the aid of some stacked boxes and buckets full of petrol, they rearm and repair their aircraft, and then head back out to land on other ships.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 36:27 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2022

Trogh and Charlie have started foxholing one corner of our tent, and I helped them a little.

1985, Luther H. Wolff, Forward surgeon: the diary of Luther H. Wolff, M.D., page 70

The line was not foxholed in. This is one weakness of the Nungs. They resent digging and so they do not carry entrenching tools into the field.

1988, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, A. L. Marshall, Ambush: The Battle of Dau Tieng, page 43

[…] the vet recalled with terrible anguish a scene where he and his friend had been foxholed several dozen yards apart, with a small group of enemy soldiers (Viet Cong) coming toward them over the crest of a hill.

2015, Teri Quatman, Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art