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▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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")
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▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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")
▸ Also see dunkirks
▸ Words similar to dunkirk
▸ Usage examples for dunkirk
▸ Idioms related to dunkirk (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing dunkirk
▸ Words that often appear near dunkirk
▸ Rhymes of dunkirk
▸ Invented words related to dunkirk