bunk
/bʌŋk/
bunk noun: one of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
Noun (1)
bunk (plural bunks)
- 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, […]1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
- A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- When the ship reached Melbourne two days later we collared a couple of cases of apples from the hold and hid them in our bunks.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 94
- A cot.
- A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
- A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
- Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
- Then, we can train in the bunk. Right, Vinod? We can train anywhere. Today you help the Armskote.1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Act 3, scene I, page 84, lines 26–27
Verb (1)
bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
Noun (2)
bunk (uncountable)
- 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.”1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47
- Synonyms:
- hokum
- In early use often in the form the bunk.
- This knife-throwing act is the bunk1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation
- 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 Runtz2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$, “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28
Adjective
bunk (not comparable)
- Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
Verb (2)
bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
- 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.
- To expel from a school.
- She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84
- To depart; scram.
- "They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle
Noun (3)
bunk (plural bunks)
- A hasty departure.
- You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
Proper noun capitalized: Bunk
Bunk (plural Bunks)
- A surname.
bunk meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bunk in Hindi
- बंक, बंक करना
bunk in Tamil
- பெட்டி அறை, பெட்டியறை, சிறுகடை, பெட்டிக்கடை, பெட்டிக் கடை, படுக்கை
bunk in Marathi
- बंक, बंक करा
bunk in Urdu
- چمک دمک, نمائش, ظاہرداری, دھوکا دینا
More languagesFewer languages
- bunk in Bengali
- খাট, স্তূপ
- bunk in Malayalam
- ശയ്യ, ശയ്യാതലം, വീതികുറഞ്ഞ കട്ടിൽ, കട്ടിൽ
- bunk in Kannada
- ಒರಗುಹಲಿಗೆ
- bunk in Gujarati
- બંક
- bunk in Odia
- ବଙ୍କ
Examples of bunk in a sentence
- The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
- I have to bunk up with Joel, as my landlord has kicked me out.
- His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Synonyms of bunk
Forms of bunk
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bunks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bunks |
| present participle | bunking |
| past participle | bunked |
| past | bunked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bunks |
Origin of bunk
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.
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
Words formed from bunk
Phrases with bunk
Words that rhyme with bunk
Questions about bunk
- What does bunk mean?
- Bunk means one of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- What is bunk in Hindi?
- Bunk in Hindi is बंक, बंक करना. See Bunk meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bunk?
- Bunk can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bunk?
- Bunk is pronounced /bʌŋk/.
- What is the plural of bunk?
- The plural of bunk is bunks.
Words near bunk in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunk (page history and authors); Bunk (page history and authors); bunk (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunk (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunk (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunk (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunk (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bunk (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunk (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunk (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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