bunk

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10
Words With Friends
13
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4
Pronunciation
/bʌŋk/

Definition of bunk

18 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
    “Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.”
    “The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]”
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noun

  1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
    “Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.”
    “The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]”
  2. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  3. A cot.
  4. (informal)A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
  5. (US)A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  6. (US, dialectal)A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  7. (Singapore, broadly)A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
    “Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.”
  8. (dated, slang, uncountable)Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
    “What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.”
    ““You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.””
  9. (obsolete, uncountable)In early use often in the form the bunk.
    “This knife-throwing act is the bunk”
  10. (slang, uncountable)A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
    “I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz”
  11. (slang)A hasty departure.
    “You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.”

verb

  1. To occupy a bunk.
    “Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.”
  2. To provide a bunk.
  3. (British, India, slang)To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
    “The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.”
  4. (UK, dated, slang)To expel from a school.
    “She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.”
  5. (slang)To depart; scram.
    “"They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"”

adj

  1. (not-comparable, slang)Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.

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