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Definition of Dunker
1. Noun. An eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it. "He was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in"
2. Noun. A basketball player who is able to make dunk shots.
3. Noun. An adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion).
Group relationships: Church Of The Brethren, Dippers, Dunkers
Generic synonyms: Baptist
Derivative terms: Dunk
Definition of Dunker
1. n. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.
Definition of Dunker
1. Noun. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers. ¹
2. Noun. Someone who dunks. ¹
3. Noun. (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunker
1. one that dunks [n -S] - See also: dunks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunker
Literary usage of Dunker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... Sedgwick—Around dunker Chapel—Richardson's splendid Advance against the
Confederate Centre the Signal of the bursting of another Storm—Longstreet's and ..."
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