bunk
bunk 1
(bŭngk)n.
1. A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall.
2. A bunk bed.
3. A place for sleeping.
v. bunked, bunk·ing, bunks
v.intr.
1.
a. To sleep in a bunk or bed.
b. To stay the night; sleep: bunk over at a friend's house.
2. To go to bed: bunked down early.
v.tr.
To provide with sleeping quarters.
[Perhaps short for bunker.]
bunk 2
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bunk
(bʌŋk)n
1. a narrow shelflike bed fixed along a wall
2. (Furniture) short for bunk bed
3. informal any place where one sleeps
vb
4. (often foll by: down) to prepare to sleep: he bunked down on the floor.
5. (intr) to occupy a bunk or bed
6. (tr) to provide with a bunk or bed
[C19: probably short for bunker]
bunk
(bʌŋk)bunk
(bʌŋk)n
a hurried departure, usually under suspicious circumstances (esp in the phrase do a bunk)
vb
(intr; usually foll by off) to play truant from (school, work, etc)
[C19: perhaps from bunk1 (in the sense: to occupy a bunk, hence a hurried departure, as on a ship)]
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bunk1
(bʌŋk)n.
1. a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
2. Informal. any bed.
3. a bunkhouse.
v.i.4. to occupy a bunk or bed.
v.t.5. to provide with a place to sleep.
[1750–60; back formation from bunker]
bunk2
(bʌŋk)n. Informal.
humbug; nonsense.
[1895–1900, Amer.; short for bunkum]
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bunk
Past participle: bunked
Gerund: bunking
| Imperative |
|---|
| bunk |
| bunk |
| Present |
|---|
| I bunk |
| you bunk |
| he/she/it bunks |
| we bunk |
| you bunk |
| they bunk |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I bunked |
| you bunked |
| he/she/it bunked |
| we bunked |
| you bunked |
| they bunked |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am bunking |
| you are bunking |
| he/she/it is bunking |
| we are bunking |
| you are bunking |
| they are bunking |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have bunked |
| you have bunked |
| he/she/it has bunked |
| we have bunked |
| you have bunked |
| they have bunked |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was bunking |
| you were bunking |
| he/she/it was bunking |
| we were bunking |
| you were bunking |
| they were bunking |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had bunked |
| you had bunked |
| he/she/it had bunked |
| we had bunked |
| you had bunked |
| they had bunked |
| Future |
|---|
| I will bunk |
| you will bunk |
| he/she/it will bunk |
| we will bunk |
| you will bunk |
| they will bunk |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have bunked |
| you will have bunked |
| he/she/it will have bunked |
| we will have bunked |
| you will have bunked |
| they will have bunked |
| Future Continuous |
|---|
| I will be bunking |
| you will be bunking |
| he/she/it will be bunking |
| we will be bunking |
| you will be bunking |
| they will be bunking |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been bunking |
| you have been bunking |
| he/she/it has been bunking |
| we have been bunking |
| you have been bunking |
| they have been bunking |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been bunking |
| you will have been bunking |
| he/she/it will have been bunking |
| we will have been bunking |
| you will have been bunking |
| they will have been bunking |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been bunking |
| you had been bunking |
| he/she/it had been bunking |
| we had been bunking |
| you had been bunking |
| they had been bunking |
| Conditional |
|---|
| I would bunk |
| you would bunk |
| he/she/it would bunk |
| we would bunk |
| you would bunk |
| they would bunk |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have bunked |
| you would have bunked |
| he/she/it would have bunked |
| we would have bunked |
| you would have bunked |
| they would have bunked |
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. | bunk - a long trough for feeding cattle manger, trough - a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed |
| 2. |  bunk - a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiersbed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" lower, lower berth - the lower of two berths upper, upper berth - the higher of two berths | |
| 3. | bunk - a rough bed (as at a campsite) bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" | |
| 4. | bunk - unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) Irish bull, crap, bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" | |
| 5. |  bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaningsubject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse) balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle - trivial nonsense buzzword, cant - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers" crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" fa la, fal la - meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong unintelligibility, incoherence, incoherency - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing | |
| 6. |  bunk - beds built one above the other bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" | |
| Verb | 1. | bunk - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| 2. | bunk - provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs" bed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" | |
| 3. |  bunk - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, run, break away, escape go forth, leave, go away - go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" flee, take flight, fly - run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" skedaddle - run away, as if in a panic |
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bunk
1bunk
2 noundo a bunk (Brit. slang) run away, flee, bolt, clear out (informal), beat it (slang), abscond, decamp, do a runner (slang), run for it (informal), cut and run (informal), scram (informal), fly the coop (U.S. & Canad. informal), skedaddle (informal), take a powder (U.S. & Canad. slang), take it on the lam (U.S. & Canad. slang) His live-in lover has done a bunk because he won't marry her.
bunk
3 bunkumnoun (Informal) nonsense, rubbish, shit (taboo slang), rot, crap (slang), garbage (informal), trash, bullshit (taboo slang), balls (taboo slang), hot air (informal), tosh (slang, chiefly Brit.), cobblers (Brit. taboo slang), bilge (informal), twaddle, tripe (informal), guff (slang), havers (Scot.), moonshine, baloney (informal), hogwash, hokum (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), piffle (informal), tomfoolery, poppycock (informal), balderdash, bosh (informal), eyewash (informal), kak (S. African taboo slang), stuff and nonsense, hooey (slang), tommyrot, horsefeathers (U.S. slang), tarradiddle Henry Ford's opinion that 'history is bunk'
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
bunk 1
verbTo provide with often temporary lodging:
bunk 2
nounSlang. Something that does not have or make sense:
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Translations
lůžko
køje
makuulavitsa
ležaj
hálóhely
koja
作り付け寝台
침대
koja
ležišče
koj
ที่นอนในเรือ
giường ngủ trên tàu
bunk
1 [bʌŋk]
B. CPD bunk bed N → litera f
bunk
2 [bʌŋk] (Brit)
A. N to do a bunk = B
bunk off (Brit)
A. VI + ADV (from school, work) → escaquearse (Sp)
bunk
3 [bʌŋk] N (= nonsense) → bobadas fpl
bunk! → ¡bobadas!
history is bunk → la historia son bobadas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
bunk
[ˈbʌŋk] n
vi (British) (= skive off) → sécher (les cours)
I bunked off yesterday afternoon → Hier après-midi j'ai séché les cours.
I'll bunk off at 3 o'clock this afternoon
BUT Je vais mettre les bouts or les voiles à 3 heures cet après-midi.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bunk
:
bunkhouse
n → Schlafbaracke f
bunkmate
n (inf) → Bettnachbar(in) m(f) (im Etagenbett)
bunk
1
n to do a bunk (Brit inf) → türmen (inf)
bunk
2
n (inf) → Quatsch m (inf)
bunk
3
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bunk
(baŋk) nouna sleeping-berth in a ship's cabin.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
bunk
→ سَرير مُبَيَّت lůžko køje Schlafkoje κουκέτα litera makuulavitsa couchette ležaj cuccetta 作り付け寝台 침대 kooi køye koja beliche койка koj ที่นอนในเรือ ranza giường ngủ trên tàu 铺位Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009