bunk 1 (bngk)
n.
1. A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin.
2. A bunk bed.
3. A place for sleeping.
v. bunked, bunk·ing, bunks
v.intr.
1.
a. To sleep in a bunk or bed.
b. To stay the night; sleep: bunk over at a friend's house.
2. To go to bed: bunked down early.
v.tr.
To provide with sleeping quarters.
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[Perhaps short for bunker.]
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bunk 2 (bngk)
n.
Empty talk; nonsense.
[Short for bunkum.]
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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words AntonymsNoun 1. bunk - a long trough for feeding cattle
feed bunk
manger, trough - a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
2. bunk - a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
built in bed, berth
bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"
lower, lower berth - the lower of two berths
upper, upper berth - the higher of two berths
3. bunk - a rough bed (as at a campsite)
bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"
4. bunk - unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot.
5. bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning
hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
subject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about
absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason
amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse)
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle - trivial nonsense
buzzword, cant - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers"
crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock"
fa la, fal la - meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song
gibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking
unintelligibility, incoherence, incoherency - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
mummery, flummery - meaningless ceremonies and flattery
empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements
schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense
hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
6. bunk - beds built one above the other
bunk bed
bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"
mark de-bunked Bailey