bunk
IPA: bˈʌŋk
noun
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (military) A cot.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
- (obsolete) In early use often in the form the bunk.
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- A surname.
verb
- To occupy a bunk.
- To provide a bunk.
- (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
- (dated) To expel from a school.
- (slang) To depart; scram.
adjective
- (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
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Examples of "bunk" in Sentences
- All this government bunk is pure smoke and mirrors.
- You see I am stiff and trail-sore, and this bunk is so restful.
- It's cozy — after all, it is a rail car — with a family caboose featuring a double bed and twin bunk beds.
- Graduates from top universities working at white collar jobs often live five or six to an apartment, in bunk beds.
- And while one of my Wonk Room colleagues calls the idea “plain bunk” because he is a “poor blogger,” my other colleague Matt Yglesias is a long-time booze tax enthusiast:
- I clambered aboard and, after a brief confusion over seating assignments, settled with my three cabinmates into a tight little space with twin bunk beds along both walls and a table in the middle.
- There's no reason why a Roman barracks should have been any different from an 18th-century European one, with entire families crammed into the neat rooms, with bunks curtained off, and the young couple in the corner on the top bunk making babies while the woman in the bottom bunk is giving birth to her fourth, and the children scamper under foot, or making themselves useful polishing kit.
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