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bunking in

bunking in is the present participle and gerund of bunk in.

Meaning of bunk in

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

Questions about bunking in

What is bunking in the present participle and gerund of?
Bunking in is the present participle and gerund of bunk in.

Words near bunking in in the dictionary

  1. bunkhouses
  2. bunkie
  3. bunkies
  4. bunking
  5. bunking down
  6. bunking in
  7. bunking into
  8. bunking off
  9. bunking out
  10. bunking together
  11. bunking up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunking in (page history and authors); bunk in (page history and authors). 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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