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Plural of dugout

regular plural

The plural of dugout is dugouts.

Forms of dugout

Singulardugout /ˈdʌɡaʊt/
Pluraldugouts
Countablecountable

Dugouts in a sentence

  • East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill. From the entry picket house
  • We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts.1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: The River of Doubt. From the entry cranky

Meaning of dugout

  1. noun A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
  2. noun Someone with old-fashioned or outdated ideas, an old fogey; especially, an elderly soldier brought in for temporary service.
  3. noun A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.

Full definition of dugout

Questions about the plural of dugout

What is the plural of dugout?
The plural of dugout is dugouts.
Is dugout countable?
Dugout is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dugout (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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