bunk

Plural: bunks

Noun

• a long trough for feeding cattle
• a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
• a rough bed (as at a campsite)
• unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
• a message that seems to convey no meaning
• beds built one above the other
• One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• A cot.
• A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• A dormitory where soldiers sleep.
• Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• In early use often in the form the bunk.
• A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.

Verb

Verb Forms: bunked, bunking, bunks

• To go to bed; also, to provide a bed.
• avoid paying
• provide with a bunk
  • "We bunked the children upstairs"
• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
• To occupy a bunk.
• To provide a bunk.
• To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
• To expel from a school.
• To depart; scram.

Adj

• Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

Examples

• Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
• He knew it was time to BUNK when he started seeing double letters on his tiles.
• Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
• The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
• What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.

Synonyms

beat, berth, break away, built in bed, buncombe, bunk bed, bunkum, escape, feed bunk, fly the coop, guff, head for the hills, hightail it, hogwash, hokum, lam, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, rot, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

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