Source : WordNet®

Dunkirk
     n 1: 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"
     2: 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 [syn: {Dunkerque}]