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hotbunk

hotbunk verb: to share bunks on a submarine, one crewmember sleeping while another is out on duty.

Verb

hotbunk (third-person singular simple present hotbunks, present participle hotbunking, simple past and past participle hotbunked)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To share bunks on a submarine, one crewmember sleeping while another is out on duty.

Forms of hotbunk

third-person singular presenthotbunks
present participlehotbunking
past participlehotbunked
pasthotbunked

Origin of hotbunk

From hot + bunk.

Questions about hotbunk

What does hotbunk mean?
Hotbunk means to share bunks on a submarine, one crewmember sleeping while another is out on duty.
What part of speech is hotbunk?
Hotbunk is a verb.
What is the past tense of hotbunk?
The past tense of hotbunk is hotbunked.

Words near hotbunk in the dictionary

  1. hotboxes
  2. hotboxing
  3. hotbrain
  4. hotbrained
  5. hotbrains
  6. hotbunk
  7. hotbunked
  8. hotbunking
  9. hotbunks
  10. hotbutton
  11. hotbuttons

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