Meanings
plural bunk-ups
- slangCasual sex.
You don't feel like a bit of a bunk-up this evening, Stubby, by any chance?
1971, Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, “Book 2: The Old Five-fingered Widow”, in A Soldier Erect, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, →OCLC, page 1111 more example
Smoking should only be done glamorously, at will readings or during multimillion-dollar jewellery heists, or wretchedly, in Paris, lamenting an extramarital bunk-up—so let’s have none of that.
2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA manoeuvre in which one person is pushed upwards by another, or others, in order to climb over a fence or similar obstacle.
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