bunk
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Definition of bunk
18 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
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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, […]”
- A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- A cot.
- (informal)A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
- (US)A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- (US, dialectal)A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
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(Singapore, broadly)A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
“Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.”
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(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.””
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(obsolete, uncountable)In early use often in the form the bunk.
“This knife-throwing act is the bunk”
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(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”
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(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
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To occupy a bunk.
“Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.”
- To provide a bunk.
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(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.”
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(UK, dated, slang)To expel from a school.
“She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.”
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(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
- (not-comparable, slang)Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
name
- 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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