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BUNKER

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

BUNKER is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

BUNKERS-s 5 BUNKERING-ing 11 BUNKERED-ed 11
noun
  1. A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
    • The military built a bunker to help evacuate the citizens safely from the bombings.
  2. A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.
  3. The coal compartment on a tank engine; it can also refer to that on a tender engine.
  4. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of bunker oil (usually plural).
    • The vessel is taking on bunkers.
  5. A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
  6. An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
  7. UKhistoricalA large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
    • There used to be a coal bunker at the back of the house - it was demolished years ago.
  8. ScotlandA sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
  9. ScotlandslangA kitchen worktop.
  10. A refrigerator or freezer, usually with an open top, used to display chilled or frozen merchandise for convenience in grocery stores.
  11. IndiaUKslangOne who bunks off; a truant from school.
  12. USregionalThe menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
verb
  1. transitiveTo load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
  2. intransitiveTo take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
  3. NigeriatransitiveTo steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
  4. transitiveTo 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.
  5. UKidiomaticinformaltransitiveTo place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
  6. transitiveTo 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.
  7. intransitiveOften followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.