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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



... the land sufficient to bunk one hundred to one hundred and fifty men; accommodations could be made with the small timber for a considerable number. Many of these men would need some help, but most of them would shift for themselves if only they could get the opportunity to build upon the land ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... can live on the same wages as one. All bunk, I'll say. My wife used to be in the hair line. Some little earner too. Had an electric machine that'd make hair grow like hay on a marsh. Two dollars a visit she got. When we was married she had nine hunderd saved. I had over five ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... voyage to Sydney, Robert Turold used to talk to him on deck at nights after Remington had gone to his bunk. It was in these solitary deck tramps under glittering stars that Thalassa first heard from the other's lips of the Turrald title: the title for which the fortune he was seeking was merely a stepping stone—the means to obtain it. "Night after night he talked of nothing ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... is quite saturated with wet, and I put on my clothes damp when I dressed, and have felt so ever since. I am so glad I was not persuaded out of my cot; it is the whole difference between rest, and holding on for life. No one in a bunk slept at all on Monday night; but then it blew as heavy a gale as it can blow, and we had the Cornish coast under our lee. So we tacked and tumbled all night. The ship being new, too, has the rigging all wrong; and the confusion ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... engaged in cutting and shaping the sticks from which he was to build Bobby's little bunk, when he heard ...
— Bobby of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace


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