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bunker

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noun

bun·​ker ˈbəŋ-kər How to pronounce bunker (audio)
1
: a bin or compartment for storage
especially : one on shipboard for the ship's fuel
2
a
: a protective embankment or dugout
especially : a fortified chamber mostly below ground often built of reinforced concrete and provided with embrasures
b
: a sand trap or embankment constituting a hazard on a golf course

bunker

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verb

bunkered; bunkering ˈbəŋ-k(ə-)riŋ How to pronounce bunker (audio)

intransitive verb

: to fill a ship's bunker with coal or oil

transitive verb

1
: to place or store in a bunker
2
: to hit (a golf ball or shot) into a bunker

Example Sentences

Noun The ammunition is stored in concrete bunkers. Verb She bunkered her tee shot. They bunkered just enough coal to get them to the port.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Hitler committed suicide in his bunker at the end of the war. Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022 This made a lot more sense to him than murdering a family to get to their bunker. New York Times, 21 July 2022 The Jacobs — longtime Bruins owner Jeremy and his CEO son Charlie — emerged from their bunker to address the state of the Spoked-B’s. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 The French government is normally guarded with media access, the AP said, but the documentary filmmakers were allowed to film the president at work in his bunker under the palace, on a plane and on trips to Kyiv and Moscow. Amar Nadhir, Washington Post, 5 July 2022 Finau recovered with birdies on the par-5 No. 14 and the par-4 No. 17, where his fairway bunker shot landed about 60 feet above the hole and trickled down the slope to within tap-in range. Kurt Kragthorpe, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2022 From their bunker beneath the plant, engineers from Rosatom, Russia’s state atomic-energy corporation, summoned managers to bring documents and manuals to make sense of the plant’s new Western features. Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022 Galletti made par on the 18th hole after hitting his second shot into a bunker near the green. Chloe Peterson, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022 Johnson also was within three shots until a bogey on the 13th and another on the par-5 14th, where his long eagle putt raced up a hill, across the green and into a pot bunker. Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2022
Verb
Frogs, which usually bunker down during cooler weather — the middle of the year in Australia — were apparently wandering out into the open, sitting down, and dying en masse. Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 22 July 2022 Despite many lyrical references to the omens of the 2020s—fevers, algorithms, TV shows that have jumped the shark—the band hawks familiar commentary: The only response to powerlessness is to find companions with whom to bunker down or run away. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022 The artist Andrea Bowers is a workaholic who, during the depths of the pandemic, was happy to bunker in her studio here and spend hundreds of hours making a single photorealistic drawing of, say, a protester for fair wages or climate justice. New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021 Others might search for hotels or bunker down for an uncomfortable night of chair sleep. Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021 Stann had just walked out of the campus barber shop when an announcement came over the loudspeaker that all midshipmen were to bunker down with their companies. Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2021 And then on the par-5 13th, DeChambeau went from deep rough to deep rough to bunker, blasting out of the sand over the green next to a beer box, making double bogey. CBS News, 21 June 2021 This will be a good weekend to bunker in either at home or your favorite pub and enjoy some soccer. Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2021 And then on the par-5 13th, DeChambeau went from deep rough to deep rough to bunker, blasting out of the sand over the green next to a beer box, making double bogey. CBS News, 21 June 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Scots bonker chest, box

First Known Use

Noun

1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1886, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of bunker was in 1839

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