decker

[ dek-er ]

/ ˈdɛk ər /

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noun

something, as a ship or bed, having a specified number of decks, floors, levels, or the like (used in combination): The cruise ship is a five-decker.

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Origin of decker

First recorded in 1785–95; deck + -er¹

Other definitions for decker (2 of 2)

Decker

[ dek-er ]

/ ˈdɛk ər /

noun

Thomas. Dekker, Thomas.

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How to use decker in a sentence

“Masters had connections with survivalists,” Grants Pass Daily Courier (PDF) reporter Edith Decker wrote in 2010.
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Listen: If you got off a double-decker bus to come to New York, who would you rather see waiting for you?
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You'd been drunk for hours, but you dove off a double-decker lake boat and came up gracefully for air.
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“I have a top-five list [of crushes], and Gisele is my number one,” model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker told the magazine.
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Decker, 26, chatted with The Daily Beast about the role, her transition from modeling to acting, and much more.
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But Decker's and Ben Jonson's works abound in allusions to tobacco, its uses and abuses.
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Its duty is, like that of any three-decker, to guard the merchant service from a dangerous foe.
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Had they really no hearts, so that it made no difference to them how deeply they wounded poor Nettie Decker?
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"Decker, you ought to learn to play," said one of the guests who had watched him through the last piece.
Little Fishers: and their Nets|Pansy
Mrs. Decker declared that the first time she sat down in it, she felt more rested than she had in three years.
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British Dictionary definitions for decker (1 of 2)

Decker

/ (ˈdɛkə) /

noun

a variant spelling of (Thomas) Dekker

British Dictionary definitions for decker (2 of 2)

-decker

adjective

(in combination) having a certain specified number of levels or layersa double-decker bus

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