bunk

UK /bʌŋk/ US /bʌŋk/
noun 8verb 5adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

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

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

5

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

verb

1

To occupy a bunk.

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

2

To provide a bunk.

noun

1

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.”

2

In early use often in the form the bunk.

This knife-throwing act is the bunk

3

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

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