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Bunk   /bəŋk/   Listen
Bunk

noun
1.
A long trough for feeding cattle.  Synonym: feed bunk.
2.
A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.  Synonyms: berth, built in bed.
3.
A rough bed (as at a campsite).
4.
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).  Synonyms: buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot.
5.
A message that seems to convey no meaning.  Synonyms: hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality.
6.
Beds built one above the other.  Synonym: bunk bed.
verb
(past & past part. bunked; pres. part. bunking)
1.
Avoid paying.  Synonym: beat.
2.
Provide with a bunk.
3.
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.  Synonyms: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail.  "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"



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"Bunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... full-back of the Bannister College football squad, his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowded into a narrow bunk, shifted his vast tonnage restlessly. He was dreaming of the wild and woolly West, and like a six-reel Western drama thrown on the screen in a moving-picture show, he visioned in his slumbers ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... not to bunk right into him," she conceded. "We'll dig very slowly when we get pretty near there. Come on, ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... Hays, when he finished his supper, "you can have a bunk. Yes, lieutenant, you must take it. I could put you ashore to-night, but it's not worth while. Get a good night's sleep, and ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... and stumbling over numerous dogs that blocked the way, and at the farther end bumped into a door. Upon pushing this open I found myself in a room perhaps twelve by fourteen feet in size. Three stone lamps shed a gloomy half light over the place, and revealed a low bunk, covered with sealskins, extending along two sides of the room, upon which nine Eskimos—men, women and children—were lying. A half inch of soft slush covered the floor. The whole place was reeking in filth, infested with vermin, and ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... into two apartments, a kitchen, which also served for a store-room, dining-room, and sitting-room; the other was the chamber, or rather bunk-room, where the family slept. Five children came tumbling out from this latter apartment as the traveler entered, and greeted him with a stare of childlike curiosity. The woman asked them to be seated on blocks of wood, which served for chairs, and soon threw off her reserve and told them her ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler


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