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
- You can take the bunk near the door.
- There is a porthole for the upper bunk.
- The bunks had metal strips to support the bedding.
- Bunk Campers was established in the summer of 2007.
- I meant that Elie Wiesel is in the picture of the bunk.
- Requer was the basis for the character of Bunk Moreland.
- Alex then sees Josh sitting on the bottom bunk of the bed.
- Bunk worries that the murder rate is spiraling out of control.
- Bunk and Freamon next visit the playground and search the area.
- The alleged link to the family of Albert Broccoli is absolute bunk.
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