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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



... weight and chest measurement of the Seven Axemen are not known. Authorities differ. History agrees that they kept a cord of four-foot wood on the table for toothpicks. After supper they would sit on the deacon seat in the bunk shanty and sing "Shanty Boy" and "Bung Yer Eye" till the folks in the settlements down on the Atlantic would think another ...
— The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan • W.B. Laughead

... to the forecastle and gave Baxter a bunk next to that occupied by old Jerry. Then he brought out an old suit of sailor's clothing and ...
— The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - The Crusoes of Seven Islands • Arthur M. Winfield

... upon 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, ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... you see," insisted Joyce, "that he must have hidden in some strange place,—and one he must have known about, too, for he went straight to it! I'm just curious to find out his 'bunk.'" Joyce was slim and dark and elfin, full of queer pranks, sudden enthusiastic plans, and very vivid of imagination, a curious contrast to the placid, slow-moving Cynthia. Joyce also, as a rule, had her way in matters, and she had ...
— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman

... with the cold, and lost no time shifting into the warm, dry clothing provided, spreading out my own soaked garments over the edge of the lower bunk, but careful first to remove my packet of private papers, which, wrapped securely in oiled silk, were not even damp. It was a typical steamer bunkhouse in which I found myself, evidently the abiding place of some ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish


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