What does bunk mean?
Definitions for bunk
bʌŋkbunk
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word bunk.
Princeton's WordNet
bunk, feed bunknoun
a long trough for feeding cattle
berth, bunk, built in bednoun
a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
bunknoun
a rough bed (as at a campsite)
bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwashnoun
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun
a message that seems to convey no meaning
bunk bed, bunkverb
beds built one above the other
beat, bunkverb
avoid paying
"beat the subway fare"
bunkverb
provide with a bunk
"We bunked the children upstairs"
scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break awayverb
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
Wiktionary
bunkverb
To fail to attend school without permission; to play truant. (Usually as in, 'to bunk off')
bunkverb
To expel from a school.
Etymology: Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe.
ChatGPT
bunk
Bunk refers to nonsensical, illogical, or untrue talk or ideas. It's often used to refer to statements or beliefs that are regarded as deceptive or false. The term can also refer to a type of bed that is stacked one above the other, especially in hostels, summer camps, and shared bedrooms.
Webster Dictionary
Bunknoun
a wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night
Bunknoun
one of a series of berths or bed places in tiers
Bunknoun
a piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers
Bunkverb
to go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bunk
bungk, n. a box or recess in a ship's cabin, a sleeping-berth anywhere.—v.i. to occupy the same bunk, sleep together.—n. Bunk′er, a large bin or chest used for stowing various things, as coals, &c.: a hazard in a golf-links, originally confined to sand-pits, but now often used for hazards generally. [Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Ice. bunki, Dan. bunke, a heap.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
bunk
A sleeping-place in the fore-peak of merchantmen; standing bed-places fixed on the sides between decks.
Rap Dictionary
bunkadjective
Unpleasant, bad.
bunkadjective
A load of bunk: a lot of nonsense.
bunkadjective
Low grade weed.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BUNK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bunk is ranked #30916 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bunk surname appeared 752 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bunk.
94.8% or 713 total occurrences were White.
1.7% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.3% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1% or 8 total occurrences were Black.
Anagrams for bunk »
knub
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of bunk in a Sentence
But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating so I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.
It was 3 in the morning, I was in my bunk when I heard people screaming 'big wave!' There was a powerful movement, I fell to the floor and all of a sudden water was rushing in.
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.
This narrative of senility, exploitation of this helpless little old lady is just hogwash. It's just complete bunk.
I kind of pushed her down and got past her and got upstairs. My son was up in his bed with the covers over him. The window blew out and flew into the side of his bed, if he didnt have a bunk bed I dont know where it would have landed on him. But that probably saved him.
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