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bunker
[ buhng-ker ]
noun
- a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box:
a coal bunker.
- a fortification set mostly below the surface of the ground with overhead protection provided by logs and earth or by concrete and fitted with openings through which guns may be fired.
- Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.
verb (used with object)
- Nautical.
- to provide fuel for (a vessel).
- to convey ( bulk cargo, except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
- Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
- to equip with or as if with bunkers:
to bunker an army's defenses.
bunker
/ ˈʌŋə /
noun
- a large storage container or tank, as for coal
- Also called (esp US and Canadian)sand trap an obstacle on a golf course, usually a sand-filled hollow bordered by a ridge
- an underground shelter, often of reinforced concrete and with a bank and embrasures for guns above ground
verb
- tr golf
- to drive (the ball) into a bunker
- passive to have one's ball trapped in a bunker
- tr nautical
- to fuel (a ship)
- to transfer (cargo) from a ship to a storehouse
Word History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
Example Sentences
According to The New York Times, the "panic industry" — consisting of at-home bunkers, hidden shooting ranges and more protective real estate renovations — has been booming in response to growing global uncertainties.
At the tunnel’s exit point near San Jacinto, the only visible signs of the infrastructure are several concrete structures resembling bunkers.
The 10th hole — a par four — appeared to be a potential bogey after Lindblad left the ball short of the putting green and into a bunker on her second shot.
After his third consecutive riot, Tovar turned to the Olympic Auditorium, the impenetrable concrete bunker in downtown Los Angeles where he’d hosted Black Flag a year before.
The foursome lives at Lee’s home in Seattle, with the women in the main house and the lads in a barn-like bunker in the yard.
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