dunker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it
    • he was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in
  2. noun a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
  3. noun an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion)
    Tunker; Dunkard.

WordNet

Dun"ker noun
Etymology
G. tunken to dip.
Definitions
  1. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists. ✍ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States.

Webster 1913