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hotbunking

hotbunking is the present participle and gerund of hotbunk.

Meaning of hotbunk

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.

Questions about hotbunking

What is hotbunking the present participle and gerund of?
Hotbunking is the present participle and gerund of hotbunk.

Words near hotbunking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotbunking (page history and authors); hotbunk (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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