laker
pronunciation
How to pronounce laker in British English:
UK [ˈleɪkə]
How to pronounce laker in American English:
US [ˈlekɚ]
Word Origin
- laker (n.)
- used of people or things associated in various ways with a lake or lakes, including tourists to the English Lake country (1798); the poets (Wordsworth, etc.) who settled in that region (1814); boats on the North American Great Lakes (1887), and a person whose work is on lakes (1838); see lake (n.1). The U.S. professional basketball team began 1947 as the Minneapolis Lakers, where the name was appropriate; before the 1960-1 season it moved to Los Angeles, but the name was kept.
Example
- 1. A certain laker all-star 's wife had her fired .
- 2. Laker , can you sit over there ?
- 3. The pilot of the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on laker geneva .
- 4. Are you a laker fan ?
- 5. Even laker fans don 't like him .