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decker

noun

deck·​er ˈde-kər How to pronounce decker (audio)
: something having a specified number of decks, levels, floors, or layers
used in combination
many of the city's buses are double-deckers

Examples of decker in a Sentence

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Judgment Day members Finn Balor and JD McDonagh rushed to the ring after the referee got inadvertently knocked out, but that wasn't enough to help Dom as Cena hit a double decker AA on them. Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025 Five living roaches were on a double- decker oven. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025 And there was a 60-year-old woman pushing a double decker trolley filled with desserts wrapped in cellophane. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025 Vibrant neon signs and bright street lights glowing above the busy night traffic of taxis, double decker buses and pedestrians along Nathan Road in the crowded Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for decker

Word History

First Known Use

1762, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of decker was in 1762

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“Decker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decker. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.

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