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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
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/ ʌŋ /
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
2/ ʌŋ /
noun
- informal.short for bunkum
bunk
3/ ʌŋ /
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)
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bunk1
Origin of bunk2
Idioms and Phrases
- do a bunk, to leave hastily, especially under suspicious circumstances; run away.
Example Sentences
Lam was 37 years old and he, his wife, three sons and three daughters bunked in barracks on the base.
The stage was completely transformed into a prison yard, complete with barbed wire fences, bunk beds and outdoor gym equipment.
But when he went upstairs, he found the boys' bodies together in the lower bunk of their shared bunk bed dressed in pyjamas, having died several hours earlier.
Human rights groups have warned that the jail, in which inmates are held in windowless cells and sleep on bare metal bunks, is a "concrete and steel pit".
They sleep on metal bunks with only a sheet to cover themselves, and each cell has just two water basins for bathing or washing and two toilets with no privacy.
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