(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

(nautical); (sports); Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place. / (nautical) Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.

(Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.

(US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.

plural of bunker

simple past tense and past participle of bunker

present participle of bunker

(nautical) The taking on board of bunker fuel. / (chiefly Nigeria) The illicit removal of oil from a pipeline or other distribution system.

A surname.

plural of bunkering