bunker
noun/ˈbʌŋkə(r)/
/ˈbʌŋkər/
- a strongly built shelter for soldiers or guns, usually underground
- a concrete/underground/secret bunker
Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsc2- The war cabinet met in an underground bunker.
- In preparation for the worst, huge underground bunkers were built.
- a container for storing coal, especially on a ship or outside a house
- a coal bunker
- (also especially North American English sand trap, trap)a small area filled with sand on a golf course
- He hit his second shot into a bunker.
- She had a difficult job getting the ball out of the bunker.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally Scots, denoting a seat or bench): perhaps related to bunk ‘narrow bed’.
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