bunk

Meaning

1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
2. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
3. A cot.
4. A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
5. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
6. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
7. A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
8. To occupy a bunk.
9. To provide a bunk.
10. Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
11. In early use often in the form the bunk.
12. A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
13. Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
14. To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
15. To expel from a school.
16. To depart; scram.
17. A hasty departure.
18. A surname.

Etymology / origin

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.

Related words

Descendant words

• punkka(Finnish) (bor)
• bunc(Irish) (bor)
• bok(Tagalog) (der)

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