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dugout

34 4.3

A low shelter beside a baseball field where players and coaches sit

noun
/ˈdʌɡaʊt/

: banquillo

Our manager, Bobby Cox, walked out of the dugout toward our starting pitcher.

Examples

We sat in a box on the third-base line, two rows behind the Cubs dugout.

Fiction book (2002)
Matt's team cheered and patted him on the back as he returned to the dugout.

Fiction book (1997)
Here, whose dugout do you think this is?

This Happy Breed (1944)
Get them in the dugout, Principal.

The Crazies (2010)
Even way over in the first base dugout, we could hear his breathing.

Fiction book (1997)
I can have a tutor, Mom, right in the dugout.

The Scout (1994)
But I still sat alone in the dugout afterward and throughout the whole game.

Fiction book (2002)
Watching from the dugout, Coach Vic felt a sharp pain in his chest.

Fiction book (1994)
I decided to move behind the Royals dugout because a ball was nearby.

Blog text (23)
The coach was waiting in the dugout for the players to return from the field.

Synonyms

sideline

vsdugout

103 3.5

The area just outside the playing field where coaches and players wait

is a low sheltered seating area used in baseball rather than an open space

Compounds

dugout canoe

1 5.3

A small boat carved from one large tree trunk

half-dugout

9.9

A shelter partly dug into the ground with walls and a roof made of earth and grass

Surface Forms

dugout singular

dugouts plural

Morphology

dugout = dig (transparent) = out + dug

The baseball 'dugout' is named for a low space that is (historically or visually) 'dug out' along the field, so the compound relation is recoverable. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Dugout also comes from dug + out, which mean 'dug out' of the earth. That's why in sports a dugout is the low, sheltered place at the side of the field where players sit.