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peanut bunker

peanut bunker noun: a small menhaden.

Noun

peanut bunker (plural peanut bunker)

  1. a small menhaden.
    • They’ll also tell you how important these fish, both in juvenile “peanut bunker” size and full-grown adult size, are to feeding sport fish like striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water
    • The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman

Forms of peanut bunker

pluralpeanut bunker

Questions about peanut bunker

What does peanut bunker mean?
Peanut bunker means a small menhaden.
What part of speech is peanut bunker?
Peanut bunker is a noun.
What is the plural of peanut bunker?
The plural of peanut bunker is peanut bunker.

Words near peanut bunker in the dictionary

  1. peanut
  2. peanut ball
  3. peanut balls
  4. peanut brittle
  5. peanut brittles
  6. peanut bunker
  7. peanut butter
  8. peanut butter and jam
  9. peanut butter and jams
  10. peanut butter and jellies
  11. peanut butter and jelly

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