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dunkirk definition
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Grep of noun dunkirk dunkirk Overview of noun dunkirk The noun dunkirk has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. Dunkirk -- (a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there") 2. Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire) Overview of noun dunkirk The noun dunkirk has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. Dunkirk -- (a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there") 2. Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)
dunkirk definition
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