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bunk

noun
/bʌŋk/

Etymology

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.

  1. derived from bunke — “boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”
  2. derived from bunker — “seat, bench”

Definitions

  1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

    • Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
    • The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

  2. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.

  3. A cot.

  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.

    2. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

    3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

    4. A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.

      • Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.

    5. To occupy a bunk.

      • Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.

    6. To provide a bunk.

    7. Bunkum

      Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

      • What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
      • “You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”

    8. In early use often in the form the bunk.

      • This knife-throwing act is the bunk

    9. A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.

      • I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz

    10. Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

    11. To fail to attend school or work without permission

      To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').

      • The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.

    12. To expel from a school.

      • She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.

    13. To depart

      To depart; scram.

    14. A hasty departure.

    15. A surname.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA