Definition of decker
: something having a specified number of decks, levels, floors, or layers —used in combination many of the city's buses are double-deckers
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Stokes, 69, works as a tour guide on an open-top double-decker bus.
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Bour hit his 16th homer — an opposite-field shot off the home run statue in left-center — and Yelich hit an upper-decker for Miami.
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In 2015, the ongoing city beautification project soared to new heights with an open-air, double decker bus tour of the neighborhoods, which included a ride to the top of the city's former landfill in the North End, known as Mount Trashmore.
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For comparison, the empty weight of the world’s largest airliner, the double-decker Airbus A380 designed to carry around 550 passengers, is 610,000 pounds.
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The drawings in this post were made in 1927 and 1934 for renovations to the stadium that extended the original triple-decker grandstand down the left- and right-field lines.
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A new species of enormous dinosaur that was as long as two-and-a-half double decker buses was recently discovered.
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Bumpy on the top floor, but typical for a double decker bus.
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