Usually means: Evacuation of Allied troops, WWII.
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  1. Dunkirk: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dunkirk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dunkirk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dunkirk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Dunkirk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dunkirk: Wordnik
  7. Dunkirk: Wiktionary
  8. Dunkirk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Dunkirk: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dunkirk: Dictionary.com
  11. Dunkirk (British horse), Dunkirk (Film), Dunkirk (TV series), Dunkirk (disambiguation), Dunkirk (movie), Dunkirk (soundtrack), Dunkirk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dunkirk: Rhymezone
  13. dunkirk: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dunkirk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Dunkirk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. dunkirk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. Dunkirk: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Dunkirk: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dunkirk, dunkirk: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dunkirk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dunkirk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dunkirk)

▸ noun:  Dunkerque, a town in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Hawkesbury parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7886).
▸ noun:  A village in Kent, England.
▸ noun:  A city in Indiana, United States.
▸ noun:  A city in New York, United States.
▸ noun:  A village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.
▸ noun:  A town in Wisconsin, United States.

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Dunkerque, Nord, Douai, Lesquin, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Hamel, Lille, Hazebrouck, more...

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Operation Dynamo, Operation Cycle, Operation Ariel, more...

Phrases:
Dunkirk evacuation, Dunkirk spirit, Battle of Dunkirk, Little Ships of Dunkirk, Treaty of Dunkirk, more...

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second, financial, post, economic, new, pre, calais, little, past, long, neighbouring

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Similar:
Dunkerque, Nord, Douai, Lesquin, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Hamel, Lille, Hazebrouck, more...

Types:
Operation Dynamo, Operation Cycle, Operation Ariel, more...

Phrases:
Dunkirk evacuation, Dunkirk spirit, Battle of Dunkirk, Little Ships of Dunkirk, Treaty of Dunkirk, Dunkirk F.C., Weekend at Dunkirk, Arrondissement of Dunkirk, more...

Adjectives:
second, financial, post, economic, new, pre, calais, little, past, long, neighbouring

Colors:
    olive drab,     khaki,     sand,     steel blue,     gunmetal, more...



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