Dictionary Definition
bunk
Noun
1 a long trough for feeding cattle [syn: feed
bunk]
2 a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
[syn: berth, built in
bed]
3 a rough bed (as at a campsite)
4 unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously
false statements) [syn: bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]
6 beds built one above the other [syn: bunk bed]
Verb
1 avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn:
beat]
2 provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children
upstairs"
3 flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you
see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: run, scarper, turn tail,
lam, run away,
hightail
it, head
for the hills, take to
the woods, escape,
fly
the coop, break
away]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /bʌŋk/, /bVNk/
- Rhymes with: -ʌŋk
Etymology 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker, origin is uncertain but possibly Scandanavian. Confer Old Swedish bunke. See also boarding, flooring and confer bunch.Noun
Translations
(nautical) built-in bed on board ship
Finnish: punkka
(military) cot
Finnish: punkka
Etymology 2
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe.Synonyms
- See
Derived terms
Translations
nonsense
- Finnish: soopa
Etymology 3
Verb
- To fail to attend school without permission; to play truant.
- To expel from a school.
Translations
to fail to attend school without permission
- Finnish: lintsata
References
Extensive Definition
Bunk may refer to:
- Bunk (slang), absurd, ridiculous, nonsense, (related to the word debunk)
- Bunk (school slang), truancy, to "play hookey," to "cut" or "skip" class
- Bunk bed, a type of bed in which one bed is stacked over another"
- Bunk Moreland, a character on the HBO drama The Wire
bunk in Portuguese: Tarimba
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abide,
abscond, applesauce, balderdash, balls, baloney, bed, bedstead, beguile, berth, bestow, betray, big talk, bilge, billet, blague, blah, blah-blah, board, bop, bosh, break, bull, bullshit, bunkum, claptrap, cohabit, couch, crap, decamp, delude, domicile, domiciliate, doss, doss down, double-cross,
dwell, eyewash, fancy talk, fine talk,
fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flee, flimflam, fly, four-flush, gammon, gas, guff, gup, gurney, hang out, harbor, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, house, humbug, humbuggery, hut, inhabit, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kip, litter, live, lodge, malarkey, mislead, moonshine, nest, occupy, perch, piffle, poppycock, put up, quarter, remain, reside, room, roost, rot, scape, scat, sell out, shelter, shit, sofa, squat, stable, stay, stretcher, tall story, tall
talk, tenant, the hay,
the sack, tommyrot,
tripe, wind