bunk

plural bunks

1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

   Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.

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   The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

2. nauticalA built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.

   When the ship reached Melbourne two days later we collared a couple of cases of apples from the hold and hid them in our bunks.

   1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 94

3. governmentA cot.
4. informalA bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
5. USA wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
6. USdialectalA piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
7. SingaporebroadlygovernmentA dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.

   Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.

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   Then, we can train in the bunk. Right, Vinod? We can train anywhere. Today you help the Armskote.

   1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Act 3, scene I, page 84, lines 26–27

present singular third person bunks · participle present bunking · participle past bunked · past bunked

1. intransitiveTo occupy a bunk.

   Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.

2. transitiveTo provide a bunk.

1. datedslanguncountableBunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

   What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.

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   “You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”

   1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47

   Synonyms: hokum

2. obsoleteuncountableIn early use often in the form the bunk.First known use 1900-1927

   This knife-throwing act is the bunk

   1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation

3. slanguncountableA specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.

   I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz

   2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$, “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28

1. not comparableslangDefective, broken, not functioning properly.

present singular third person bunks · participle present bunking · participle past bunked · past bunked

1. IndiaUKslangTo fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').

   The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.

2. UKdatedslangTo expel from a school.

   She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.

   1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84

3. slangTo depart; scram.

   "They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"

   1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle

plural bunks

1. slangA hasty departure.

   You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

plural Bunks

1. A surname.