dunker

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see also: Dunker

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Noun

dunker (plural dunkers)

1. Someone who dunks.
2. (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
3. A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
4. Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
5. (naval) A kind of sonobuoy.
   • 1986, Jane's Defence Weekly (volume 6, page 1285)

     Active sonar, for aircraft purposes still largely associated with dunking, suffers less variability but often has less range. […] Development of both dunkers and sonobuoys continues towards lower frequencies, implying bigger arrays, and deeper deployments.

   • 2013, Philip Kaplan, Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying (page 179)

     Then they drop the dunker into the water and spin it around a few times so you end up upside-down.

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Dunker

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Noun

dunker (plural dunkers)

1. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.
2. A member of the Church of the Brethren.

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