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bunk

Pronunciation: /bʌŋk/

The English word “bunk” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  2. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  3. A cot.
  4. A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
  5. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  6. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  7. A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
  8. Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  9. In early use often in the form the bunk.
  10. A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
  11. A hasty departure.

verb

  1. To occupy a bunk.
  2. To provide a bunk.
  3. To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
  4. To expel from a school.
  5. To depart; scram.

adjective

  1. Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

Etymology

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.

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