Etymology Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.
One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
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Nautical, Transport A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
Then, we can train in the bunk. Right, Vinod? We can train anywhere. Today you help the Armskote.1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Act 3, scene I, page 84, lines 26–27:
Etymology Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.
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To occupy a bunk.
Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
“You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47:
This knife-throwing act is the bunk1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation:
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Slang A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$, “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28:
bunk
verb
Etymology 19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
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India, UK, Slang To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:
"They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:
Etymology 19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London: