Usually means: Exceptionally large specimen of fish.
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  1. lunker: Merriam-Webster
  2. lunker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lunker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lunker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lunker, lunker: Wordnik
  6. lunker: Wiktionary
  7. lunker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. lunker: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. lunker: Dictionary.com
  10. lunker: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lunker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lunker: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (US) Anything, especially a sport fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper.

Similar:
lumper, largie, lump, nightcrawler, monkfish, overbody, lob-worm, ten-pounder, bighead, loosejaw, more...

Opposite:
runt, small fish, undersized fish

Adjectives:
old, big, real, occasional, huge

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Similar:
lumper, largie, lump, nightcrawler, monkfish, overbody, lob-worm, ten-pounder, bighead, loosejaw, more...

Opposite:
runt, small fish, undersized fish

Adjectives:
old, big, real, occasional, huge



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