bunk1

[buhngk] /bʌŋk/
noun
1.
a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
2.
Informal. any bed.
3.
a cabin used for sleeping quarters, as in a summer camp; bunkhouse.
4.
a trough for feeding cattle.
verb (used without object)
5.
Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters:
Joe and Bill bunked together at camp.
verb (used with object)
6.
to provide with a place to sleep.
Origin
1750-60; back formation from bunker

bunk2

[buhngk] /bʌŋk/
noun, Informal.
1.
humbug; nonsense.
Origin
1895-1900, Americanism; short for bunkum
Synonyms
baloney, rot, hogwash, applesauce, bull, hooey.

bunk3

[buhngk] /bʌŋk/
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
1.
to bump.
Origin
perhaps expressive alteration of bump

bunk4

[buhngk] /bʌŋk/
verb (used with object)
1.
to absent oneself from:
to bunk a history class.
verb (used without object)
2.
to run off or away; flee.
Idioms
3.
do a bunk, to leave hastily, especially under suspicious circumstances; run away.
Origin
1865-70; perhaps special use of bunk1
Examples from the web for bunk
  • And different security levels bunk in the same room, meaning a murderer can sleep beside a thief.
  • No guns were collected from the scene, and the victims said the police's claims were bunk.
  • At nightfall, bunk in a cozy cottage with a private garden.
  • Also, this idea that the shortening of telomeres is the only cause of aging is total bunk.
  • The kids bunk room, along with all the other rooms in the house, overlooks the water.
  • The bunk bed in the bedroom, on the second floor, evokes the romance of a sleeping compartment in a train.
  • The notion that speculators provide liquidity is complete bunk.
  • Today, nearly every bunk in the lodge is booked months ahead of time.
  • Now we've got the original sources of the article saying this whole thing is bunk.
  • Sure, it's a bunk bed, in a trailer with seven other guys.
British Dictionary definitions for bunk

bunk1

/bʌŋk/
noun
1.
a narrow shelflike bed fixed along a wall
2.
short for bunk bed
3.
(informal) any place where one sleeps
verb
4.
(intransitive) often foll by down. to prepare to sleep: he bunked down on the floor
5.
(intransitive) to occupy a bunk or bed
6.
(transitive) to provide with a bunk or bed
Word Origin
C19: probably short for bunker

bunk2

/bʌŋk/
noun
1.
(informal) short for bunkum (sense 1)

bunk3

/bʌŋk/
noun
1.
a hurried departure, usually under suspicious circumstances (esp in the phrase do a bunk)
verb
2.
(usually foll by off) to play truant from (school, work, etc)
Word Origin
C19: perhaps from bunk1 (in the sense: to occupy a bunk, hence a hurried departure, as on a ship)
Word Origin and History for bunk
n.

"sleeping berth," 1758, probably a shortened form of bunker (n.) in its sense "seat." Bunk-bed (n.) attested by 1869.

"nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual story (by 1841) of its origin is this: At the close of the protracted Missouri statehood debates, supposedly on Feb. 25, 1820, N.C. Representative Felix Walker (1753-1828) began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. "I shall not be speaking to the House," he confessed, "but to Buncombe." Bunkum has been American English slang for "nonsense" since 1841 (from 1838 as generic for "a U.S. Representative's home district").

MR. WALKER, of North Carolina, rose then to address the Committee on the question [of Missouri statehood]; but the question was called for so clamorously and so perseveringly that Mr. W. could proceed no farther than to move that the committee rise. [Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 16th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1539]

v.

"to sleep in a bunk," 1840, originally nautical, from bunk (n.1). Related: Bunked; bunking.

Slang definitions & phrases for bunk

bunk

noun

Nonsense; pretentious talk; baloney, bullshit (1900+)

verb

To cheat; defraud; bunco: couldn't possibly have done a better job of bunking the American people (1870s+)

[fr the explanation by a 1800s politician that his extraordinary statements were meant only for his constituents in Buncombe County, North Carolina]