Usually means: Underground shelter for protection, storage.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bunker, bunker: Merriam-Webster
  2. bunker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bunker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bunker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bunker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bunker, bunker: Wordnik
  7. bunker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bunker, bunker: Wiktionary
  9. bunker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bunker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bunker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bunker, bunker: Dictionary.com
  13. bunker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bunker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bunker (Berlin), Bunker (DC Comics), Bunker (comics), Bunker (disambiguation), Bunker (golf), Bunker (surname), Bunker, The Bunker (book), The Bunker (comics), The Bunker (disambiguation), The Bunker (video game), The Bunker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bunker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bunker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bunker: Rhymezone
  19. Bunker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bunker: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bunker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bunker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bunker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. bunker: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bunker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bunker: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bunker (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bunker, bunker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. bunker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. bunker: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Bunker: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See bunkered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
noun:  (nautical) A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.
noun:  (rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.
noun:  (sports)
noun:  (golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
noun:  (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
noun:  (British, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
noun:  (Scotland)
noun:  A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
noun:  (slang) A kitchen worktop.
verb:  (nautical)
verb:  (transitive) To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
verb:  (intransitive, of a vessel) To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
verb:  (transitive, Nigeria) To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
verb:  (idiomatic, UK, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
verb:  (transitive, paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
verb:  (intransitive) Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
noun:  (British, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
noun:  (US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
noun:  A surname.

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