Dunker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Dunker
An Americanism first recorded in 1705–15; from Pennsylvania Dutch; see dunk, -er 1
Example Sentences
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WSU punter Nick Haberer, a Melbourne, Australia, native who hadn’t played American football before arriving on the Palouse, joined fellow specialist Lucas Dunker Jr. in thanking Rolovich on Twitter.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
When the ranger on the video at the Cornfield talks about thousands of soldiers waiting in the woods behind you, you instinctively swivel around to see the whitewashed Dunker Church.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020
“Ted Dunker is basically the most unlikely candidate to become mayor of his town,” she said of her character.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
Hours of ferocious charges and countercharges around sites known simply as “the Cornfield,” “the Dunker Church,” and “Bloody Lane” took 12,000 Union and 10,000 Confederate casualties.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
She had saved them a trip to the bottom of the pool because she had conquered the Dilbert Dunker, a water survival test for astronaut candidates.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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