1 a strongly built shelter for soldiers or guns, usually underground:
a concrete / underground / secret bunker
2 a container for storing coal, especially on a ship or outside a house:
a coal bunker
3 (AmE also sand trap, trap) a small area filled with sand on a golf course:
He hit his second shot into a bunker.
verb [VN] (be bunkered) (in golf) to have hit your ball into a bunker (and therefore to be in a difficult position)
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Is bunker a noun, verb, or something else?
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