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bunk 1
(bŭngk)n.
1. A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall.
2. A bunk bed.
3. A place for sleeping.
v. bunked, bunk·ing, bunks
v.intr.
1.
a. To sleep in a bunk or bed.
b. To stay the night; sleep: bunk over at a friend's house.
2. To go to bed: bunked down early.
v.tr.
To provide with sleeping quarters.
[Perhaps short for bunker.]
bunk 2
(bŭngk)n.
Empty talk; nonsense.
[Short for bunkum.]
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bunk
(bʌŋk)n
1. a narrow shelflike bed fixed along a wall
2. (Furniture) short for bunk bed
3. informal any place where one sleeps
vb
4. (often foll by: down) to prepare to sleep: he bunked down on the floor.
5. (intr) to occupy a bunk or bed
6. (tr) to provide with a bunk or bed
[C19: probably short for bunker]
bunk
(bʌŋk)n
informal short for bunkum1
bunk
(bʌŋk)n
a hurried departure, usually under suspicious circumstances (esp in the phrase do a bunk)
vb
(intr; usually foll by off) to play truant from (school, work, etc)
[C19: perhaps from bunk1 (in the sense: to occupy a bunk, hence a hurried departure, as on a ship)]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
bunk1
(bʌŋk)n.
1. a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
2. Informal. any bed.
3. a bunkhouse.
v.i. 4. to occupy a bunk or bed.
v.t. 5. to provide with a place to sleep.
[1750–60; back formation from bunker]
bunk2
(bʌŋk)n. Informal.
humbug; nonsense.
[1895–1900, Amer.; short for bunkum]
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bunk
Past participle: bunked
Gerund: bunking
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| Noun | 1. | bunk - a long trough for feeding cattle |
| 2. |  bunk - a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiersbed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" lower, lower berth - the lower of two berths upper, upper berth - the higher of two berths | |
| 3. | bunk - a rough bed (as at a campsite) bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" | |
| 4. | bunk - unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) Irish bull, crap, bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" | |
| 5. |  bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaningamphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse) cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers" crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing | |
| 6. |  bunk - beds built one above the other bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" | |
| Verb | 1. | bunk - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" |
| 2. | bunk - provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs" bed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" | |
| 3. |  bunk - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, run, break away, escape go forth, leave, go away - go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" skedaddle - run away, as if in a panic |
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bunk
1bunk
2 noundo a bunk (Brit. slang) run away, flee, bolt, clear out (informal), beat it (slang), abscond, decamp, do a runner (slang), run for it (informal), cut and run (informal), scram (informal), fly the coop (U.S. & Canad. informal), skedaddle (informal), take a powder (U.S. & Canad. slang), take it on the lam (U.S. & Canad. slang) His live-in lover has done a bunk because he won't marry her.
bunk
3 bunkumnoun (Informal) nonsense, rubbish, shit (taboo slang), rot, crap (slang), garbage (informal), trash, bullshit (taboo slang), balls (taboo slang), hot air (informal), tosh (slang, chiefly Brit.), cobblers (Brit. taboo slang), bilge (informal), twaddle, tripe (informal), guff (slang), havers (Scot.), moonshine, baloney (informal), hogwash, hokum (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), piffle (informal), tomfoolery, poppycock (informal), balderdash, bosh (informal), eyewash (informal), kak (S. African taboo slang), stuff and nonsense, hooey (slang), tommyrot, horsefeathers (U.S. slang), tarradiddle Henry Ford's opinion that 'history is bunk'
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bunk 1
verbbunk 2
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bunk
1 [bʌŋk]B. CPD bunk bed N → litera f
bunk
2 [bʌŋk] (Brit)A. N to do a bunk = B
B. VI → largarse, escaquearse (Sp)
bunk off (Brit)
A. VI + ADV (from school, work) → escaquearse (Sp)
B. VI + PREP to bunk off school → hacer novillos or rabona
bunk
3 [bʌŋk] N (= nonsense) → bobadas fplbunk! → ¡bobadas!
history is bunk → la historia son bobadas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
bunk
(baŋk) noun a sleeping-berth in a ship's cabin. litera
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