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dunkirk
 
Noun dunkirk has 2 senses
  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"
    --1 is a kind of     crisis
  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
    --2 is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center; amphibious operation; evacuation
    --2 is a part of World War II, World War 2, Second World War
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