Synonyms for bunker
ˈbʌŋ kərbunker

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1. bunker, sand trap, trapnoun

   a hazard on a golf course

   Synonyms:
   trap, cakehole, lying in wait, sand trap, yap, dugout, ambuscade, snare, hole, gob, ambush, maw

2. bunkernoun

   a large container for storing fuel

   "the ship's bunkers were full of coal"

   Synonyms:
   sand trap, trap, dugout

3. bunker, dugoutverb

   a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground

   Synonyms:
   pirogue, dugout canoe, sand trap, trap, dugout

4. bunkerverb

   hit a golf ball into a bunker

5. bunkerverb

   fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil

6. bunkerverb

   transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse

Matched Categories

1. • Container
   • Fuel
   • Hit
   • Transfer

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1. bunkernoun

   Synonyms:
   bin, crib

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1. bunkernoun

   Synonyms:
   bin, receptacle, crib

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1. List of paraphrases for "bunker":

   pillbox, hatch, bunkering, lockdown, blockhouse, fuel

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How to use bunker in a sentence?

1. British Open:

   There are bunkers everywhere and strategy off the tee is very important, you need to drive the ball well this week. You can't play this course from the bunkers so that means being conservative in some areas and in other areas flying a bunker and accepting being in the rough.

2. Peter Keller:

   In 2017, there was only one bunker vessel for LNG anywhere in the world. Today, there are five and 14 more on order.

3. Jordan Spieth:

   I was deciding whether to go over( the bunker) or short of it and instead I took the club that was right in-between and tried to throw it up in the air to get it close to the bunker, it was just trying to make up for the hole before.

4. Henrik Pedersen:

   We are not a very big part of the company, we're the ship-owning part of OW Bunker and Trading. And that was our biggest client, of course, but we have always been run as a separate company.

5. Teddy Goff:

   It wasn't as if we all kind of retreated into a bunker to drown our sorrows or anything like that, in the midst of that day, discovering that we were really rebuilding a list virtually from scratch, it was a realization that there was going to be a tough road ahead.