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bunk in

bunk in verb: to enter a venue covertly, without permission.

Verb

bunk in (third-person singular simple present bunks in, present participle bunking in, simple past and past participle bunked in)

  1. (UK, slang) To enter a venue covertly, without permission.
    • Bunking in had to be abandoned when we reached the age of twelve, not because of any developing sense of civic responsibility, but because we'd grown too big to squeeze through the gents' toilet window at the Red Hall Cinema […]2004, Harry Turner, Growing Up in Fulham, page 179

Forms of bunk in

third-person singular presentbunks in
present participlebunking in
past participlebunked in
pastbunked in

Questions about bunk in

What does bunk in mean?
Bunk in means to enter a venue covertly, without permission.
What part of speech is bunk in?
Bunk in is a verb.
What is the past tense of bunk in?
The past tense of bunk in is bunked in.

Words near bunk in in the dictionary

  1. bunjy
  2. bunk
  3. bunk bed
  4. bunk beds
  5. bunk down
  6. bunk in
  7. bunk into
  8. bunk lizard
  9. bunk lizards
  10. bunk off
  11. bunk out

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