Definitions for Bunker

Bunker bun·ker

Spelling: [buhng-ker]
IPA: /ˈbʌŋ kər/

Bunker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Bunker (beknru).

Definitions for Bunker

noun

  1. a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box:
  2. 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.
  3. Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.

verb (used with object)

  1. Nautical. to provide fuel for (a vessel). to convey (bulk cargo except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
  2. Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
  3. to equip with or as if with bunkers:

Origin of Bunker

1750-60; earlier bonkar (Scots) box, chest, serving also as a seat, of obscure origin

Examples for Bunker

bunker, along with his brothers Herbert and Lamar, started buying silver in 1970, when it was $1.94 an ounce.

The bunker, so crucial during the final years of the Cold War in the Baltic, was only declassified in 2003.

See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to bunker hill!

Whatever the reason, Burton was committed enough to leave tiny bunker Hill to seek out her beau.

You feel like you need to bunker up, hide away, and arm yourself.

Before bunker Hill, every one of them who could leave Boston had done so.

Hunkered down in a bunker, she, Mellie, and Fitz argue over what details about their relationship they want to make public.

It is with reason, then, that Boston still celebrates bunker Hill.

He sustained us at bunker Hill, and we should have held it if our powder had not given out.

In the nave of the cathedral are two English battle-flags that were at bunker Hill.

Word Value for Bunker
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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