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bunk
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[buhngk] 
–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. |
bunk
2 [buhngk] –noun Informal.
| humbug; nonsense. |
Synonyms:
baloney, rot, hogwash, applesauce, bull, hooey.
baloney, rot, hogwash, applesauce, bull, hooey.
bunk
3 [buhngk] –verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
| to bump. |
bunk
4 [buhngk] British Slang.–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to absent oneself from: to bunk a history class. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idiom| 2. | to run off or away; flee. |
| 3. | do a bunk, to leave hastily, esp. under suspicious circumstances; run away. |
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| bunk 1 (bŭngk) n.
v. intr.
To provide with sleeping quarters. [Perhaps short for bunker.] |
| bunk 2 (bŭngk) n. Empty talk; nonsense. [Short for bunkum.] |
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Bunk
Bunk\, n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.]1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.] 2. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers. 3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]
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Language Translation for : bunk
Spanish:
litera,
German:
die Koje,
Japanese:
簡易寝台
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").
bunk (2)
"nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. During the protracted Missouri statehood debates, on Feb. 25, 1820, N.C. Representative Felix Walker began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. "I shall not be speaking to the House," he confessed, "but to Buncombe." Bunkum has been Amer.Eng. slang for "nonsense" since 1847.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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