dunker

dunk +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (patient suffix)

• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)

dunker (plural dunkers)

1. Someone who dunks.
2. (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
3. A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
4. Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
5. (nautical) A kind of sonobuoy.
   • 1986, Jane's Defence Weekly, volume 6, page 1285:

     Active sonar, for aircraft purposes still largely associated with dunking, suffers less variability but often has less range. […] Development of both dunkers and sonobuoys continues towards lower frequencies, implying bigger arrays, and deeper deployments.

   • 2013, Philip Kaplan, Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying, page 179:

     Then they drop the dunker into the water and spin it around a few times so you end up upside-down.

• drunke

From Old Saxon dunkar, from Proto-Germanic *dunkaraz, *dunkalaz (“dark”).

• IPA^(key): /dʊŋkər/

dunker (comparative dunkerer, superlative dunkerest)

1. dark

• duster