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bunk

1  [buhngk]
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–noun
1. a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
2. Informal. any bed.
3. a cabin used for sleeping quarters, as in a summer camp; bunkhouse.
4. a trough for feeding cattle.
–verb (used without object)
5. Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters: Joe and Bill bunked together at camp.
–verb (used with object)
6. to provide with a place to sleep.
Origin:
1750–60; back formation from bunker
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bunk

3  [buhngk]
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
to bump.
Origin:
perh. expressive alter. of bump

bunk

4  [buhngk] British Slang.
–verb (used with object)
1. to absent oneself from: to bunk a history class.
–verb (used without object)
2. to run off or away; flee.
—Idiom
3. do a bunk, to leave hastily, esp. under suspicious circumstances; run away.
Origin:
1865–70; perh. special use of bunk 1
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bunk 1   (bŭngk)   
n.  

  1. A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin.

  2. A bunk bed.

  3. A place for sleeping.

v.   bunked, bunk·ing, bunks

v.   intr.

    1. To sleep in a bunk or bed.

    2. To stay the night; sleep: bunk over at a friend's house.

  2. To go to bed: bunked down early.

v.   tr.
To provide with sleeping quarters.

[Perhaps short for bunker.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bunked

  1. mod.
    drunk. : That's enough. You're bunked.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bunk  (1)
"sleeping berth," 1758, probably a shortened from bunker, Scot. for "a seat, bench," of uncertain origin, possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.Sw. bunke "boards used to protect the cargo of a ship").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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