bunked

Verb (1)

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

1. To occupy a bunk.
   • Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
2. To provide a bunk.

Verb (2)

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

1. (India, UK, slang) 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.
2. (UK, dated, slang) 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
3. (slang) 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

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