dunker

plural dunkers

1. Someone who dunks.
2. ball gamesA 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. nauticalA kind of sonobuoy.

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

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

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   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.

   1986, Jane's Defence Weekly, volume 6, page 1285

plural Dunkers · alternative Dunkard · alternative Tunker

1. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.
2. A member of the Church of the Brethren.