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bunk
1[ buhngk ]
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.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters:
Joe and Bill bunked together at camp.
verb (used with object)
- to provide with a place to sleep.
bunk
2[ buhngk ]
bunk
3[ buhngk ]
verb (used with or without object)
- Chiefly New York City. to bump.
bunk
4[ buhngk ]
verb (used with object)
- to absent oneself from (school, work, etc.):
to bunk a history class.
verb (used without object)
- to run off or away; flee:
When they heard the distant police sirens, they dropped the bag of jewelry and silver and bunked.
bunk
1/ bʌŋk /
noun
- a hurried departure, usually under suspicious circumstances (esp in the phrase do a bunk )
verb
- usually foll by off to play truant from (school, work, etc)
bunk
2/ bʌŋk /
noun
- a narrow shelflike bed fixed along a wall
- short for bunk bed
- informal.any place where one sleeps
verb
- introften foll bydown to prepare to sleep
he bunked down on the floor
- intr to occupy a bunk or bed
- tr to provide with a bunk or bed
bunk
3/ bʌŋk /
noun
- informal.short for bunkum
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bunk1
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Idioms and Phrases
- do a bunk, to leave hastily, especially under suspicious circumstances; run away.
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Example Sentences
Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches.
Barba offered me a line of cocaine as we sat on his bunk bed covered by posters of musicians and half-naked women.
At the prefab dorms on the American base in Kandahar, I ran into my neighbor from the bunk next door.
We spent our days and nights with the kids at the center, sleeping on bunk beds with thin mattresses.
More than 40 of us crammed into each darkened bay lined with bunk beds.
I remember waking up one night and looking out of my bunk to see him standing on the floor.
The first man my eyes lighted upon as I stepped inside was MacRae, humped disconsolately on the edge of a bunk.
Thereafter he went into a contemplative frame of mind to the docks, and found Sam Blake as usual in his bunk.
He disliked the look of Cash's rough coat and sweater and cap, that hung on a nail over Cash's bunk.
Bud set him down on the bunk, gave him a mail-order catalogue to look at, and went out again into the storm.
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