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spelunker

spe·lun·ker

US/spʌˈlʌŋkɜr/ uncommon us

noun

1.

a person who explores caves

Origin

From then-obsolete spelunk (noun) + -er. Coined by New England cave explorer Roger Charles Johnson in the 1930s.

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