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bunk off

bunk off verb: to leave.

Verb

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

  1. (literally) To leave.
  2. (UK, slang) To play truant
    • We all bunked off school yesterday to watch the football.
    • “You better be off to school now, young lady. You don’t want to be late…”
      “I suppose so,” mumbled Zoe. Sometimes she wondered why she didn’t just bunk off like so many of the others.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Synonyms of bunk off

All synonyms of bunk off

Forms of bunk off

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

Questions about bunk off

What does bunk off mean?
Bunk off means to leave.
What part of speech is bunk off?
Bunk off is a verb.
What is the past tense of bunk off?
The past tense of bunk off is bunked off.

Words near bunk off in the dictionary

  1. bunk down
  2. bunk in
  3. bunk into
  4. bunk lizard
  5. bunk lizards
  6. bunk off
  7. bunk out
  8. bunk together
  9. bunk up
  10. bunk-up
  11. bunk-ups

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