From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbunkerbun‧ker1 /ˈbʌŋkə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 PMa strongly built shelter for soldiers, usually underground2 British EnglishDSG a large hole on a golf course filled with sand SYN sand trap American English3 TPGa place where you store coal, especially on a ship or outside a house
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bunker• The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.• Each bunker guard strained intently at the night shadows before him.• Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker.• From the right-hand group of trees, he went into the front left-hand bunker.• Given better fortune, shots that bounced off hillocks and into bunkers might have bounced on to greens.• Was it a plan to build a last secure bunker in the Lena Valley if Leningrad and Moscow fell to the blitzkrieg?• Then they'd have a use for their bunkers.• The grass caught his club-head and he hoicked his ball into one of those bunkers.bunkerbunker2 verb [transitive] British English to hit a golf ball into a bunker→ See Verb tableOrigin bunker (1800-1900) Scottish English bunker “seat with storage space inside” ((18-19 centuries)), perhaps from bank “long seat” ((13-18 centuries)), from Old French banc; → BANK16 