bunker
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
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Etymology: The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 7.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: bunkers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bunkering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bunkered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bunkered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
transitive
gloss: To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
pos: verb
tags: UK
idiomatic
informal
transitive
examples: Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes: thatll bunker him.
gloss: To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As troops swarmed the streets below and gun battles continued to rage, I bunkered in a room on the top floor of a building in the middle of the red zone. Redshirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong sought refuge there too. Protesters burned a train station below, hurling tyres on to an already roaring blaze across the tracks.
More than 10,000 people were bunkering in 20 emergency shelters across the disaster zone, not all of them cyclone-rated.
The Kyiv Zoo staff and their families are bunkering at the zoo as they care for the animals housed there amid the war in Ukraine.
Derived words: bunker down
bunkerer
bunker out
bunker up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: попадам в пясъчника
roman: popadam v pjasǎčnika