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bunk

[buhngk]

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noun

a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.

Informal. any bed.

a cabin used for sleeping quarters, as in a summer camp; bunkhouse.

a trough for feeding cattle.

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verb (used without object)

Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters: Joe and Bill bunked together at camp.

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to spend time idly; loaf.

to run away hurriedly; flee.

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verb (used with object)

to provide with a place to sleep.

Origin:
1750–60; back formation from bunker

Example Sentences

Many residents choose to sleep on a bottom bunk with curtains to block out the glare of fluorescent light.

We are not interested in sleeping on bunk beds in a hostel.

No guns were collected from the scene, and the victims said the police's claims were bunk.

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Many residents choose to sleep on a bottom bunk with curtains to block out the glare of fluorescent light.

We are not interested in sleeping on bunk beds in a hostel.

No guns were collected from the scene, and the victims said the police's claims were bunk.

At nightfall, bunk in a cozy cottage with a private garden.

Also, this idea that the shortening of telomeres is the only cause of aging is total bunk.

He told of lying in his bunk at night hearing the machine guns going as the liberated inmates tried to escape.

The kids bunk room, along with all the other rooms in the house, overlooks the water.

Accomodations included a single bunk and a pressure-operated toilet.

The bunk bed in the bedroom, on the second floor, evokes the romance of a sleeping compartment in a train.

Naturally, plenty of people think the research is bunk and have said.

The notion that speculators provide liquidity is complete bunk.

Today, nearly every bunk in the lodge is booked months ahead of time.

Now we've got the original sources of the article saying this whole thing is bunk.

Young kids share a room with a pair of bunk beds for easy sleepovers.

Sure, it's a bunk bed, in a trailer with seven other guys.

The steering house and captain's bunk are original, but.

Science has developed a diverse toolbox of methods for determining which hypotheses are simply good-sounding bunk.

Most of them has shared bathrooms, with six people per room with bunk beds.

Accommodations at the rustic jumble of logs and stone are old-school: family-style meals, bunk beds, and shared rooms.

The claims about solar's unworkability are mostly transparently bunk.

Bunk beds maximize space in the florescent-lit, curved-walled cabins.

Danny's bedroom is in the rear, empty except for a worn bunk bed with a six-inch caved-in mattress on the bottom bunk.

It is total and complete bunk that the consumer was fooled into taking the huge loans that they could not pay back.

We clamber up to it in the afternoon light and each pick an alcove to bunk down in.

I've heard these bunk claims before, and never can they provide anything more than anecdotal evidence.

The husband in the upper bunk rolled over against the wall.

Conn, home, had bunk beds and stole pizza off one another's plates.

And different security levels bunk in the same room, meaning a murderer can sleep beside a thief.

So, quite honestly, this article is absolute bunk based upon false premise.

Men are crammed into the cells, sitting on the floor or on concrete bunk beds with no mattresses.

Dont listen to them and their anti-sun exposure bunk.

One dream sequence, played against a snowy backdrop, is pure synthetic bunk.

Creationism is a load of illogical bunk with no basis in anything other than the.

Accommodations range from cabins in the woods with bunk mates to luxurious inns.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Informal.

humbug; nonsense.

Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism; short for bunkum

Synonyms
baloney, rot, hogwash, applesauce, bull, hooey.

verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

to bump.

Origin:
perhaps expressive alteration of bump

verb (used with object)

to absent oneself from: to bunk a history class.

verb (used without object)

to run off or away; flee.

Idiom

do a bunk, to leave hastily, especially under suspicious circumstances; run away.

Origin:
1865–70; perhaps special use of bunk¹

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Collins

World English Dictionary

bunk¹ (bʌŋk)

—n
1.	a narrow shelflike bed fixed along a wall
2.	short for bunk bed
3.	informal any place where one sleeps

—vb (often foll by down)
4.	to prepare to sleep: he bunked down on the floor
5.	(intr) to occupy a bunk or bed
6.	(tr) to provide with a bunk or bed

[C19: probably short for bunker]

bunk² (bʌŋk)

—n
	informal short for bunkum

bunk³ (bʌŋk)

—n
1.	a hurried departure, usually under suspicious circumstances (esp in the phrase do a bunk)

—vb
2.	(usually foll by off) to play truant from (school, work, etc)

[C19: perhaps from bunk¹ (in the sense: to occupy a bunk, hence a hurried departure, as on a ship)]

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Word Origin & History

bunk

"sleeping berth," 1758, probably a shortened from bunker, Scottish for "a seat, bench," of uncertain origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. O.Swed. bunke "boards used to protect the cargo of a ship").

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bunk

"nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual story of its origin is this: At the close of 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.

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