bunk
see also: Bunk
Pronunciation Noun
Bunk
Proper noun
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see also: Bunk
Pronunciation Noun
bunk (plural bunks)
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (military) A cot.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- French: couchette
- German: Koje
- Italian: cuccetta, letto a castello
- Portuguese: beliche
- Russian: ко́йка
- Spanish: litera
- Russian: ко́йка
bunk (bunks, present participle bunking; past and past participle bunked)
Nounbunk (uncountable)
Adjectivebunk (not comparable)
- (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly
- See also Thesaurus:nonsense
bunk (bunks, present participle bunking; past and past participle bunked)
- (British) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
- (dated) To expel from a school.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, OCLC 54130892 ↗, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84 ↗:
- She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
- French: faire l’école buissonnière, buissonner (familiar, France)
- Russian: прогуливать
- Spanish: hacer novillos (colloquial), hacer la cimarra (colloquial)
Bunk
Proper noun
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