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Bunk
Definitions
- 1 Defective, broken, not functioning properly. not-comparable, slang
- 1 A surname.
- 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."
- 2 Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. dated, slang, uncountable
"What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word."
- 3 a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers wordnet
- 4 A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- 5 In early use often in the form the bunk. obsolete, uncountable
"This knife-throwing act is the bunk"
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- 6 a rough bed (as at a campsite) wordnet
- 7 A cot.
- 8 A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient. slang, uncountable
"I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz"
- 9 a long trough for feeding cattle wordnet
- 10 A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. US
- 11 beds built one above the other wordnet
- 12 A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. US, dialectal
- 13 a message that seems to convey no meaning wordnet
- 14 A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep. Singapore, broadly
"Don’t leave your bunk unlocked."
- 15 unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) wordnet
- 1 To occupy a bunk.
"Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together."
- 2 To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). British, India
"The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop."
- 3 flee; take to one's heels; cut and run wordnet
- 4 To provide a bunk.
- 5 To expel from a school. dated
"She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for."
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- 6 provide with a bunk wordnet
- 7 To depart; scram. slang
""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. […]""
- 8 avoid paying wordnet
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.
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.
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
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