Meaning

11 senses
  1. 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.

    Koje

    ко́йкаkójka, по́лкаpólka

  2. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.

    Koje

    ко́йкаkójka

    a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

  3. A cot.

  4. (informal)A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.

  5. (US)A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

  6. (US, dialectal)A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

  7. (Singapore, broadly)A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.

    Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.

  8. (dated, slang, uncountable)Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

    What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.

  9. (slang, uncountable)A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.

  10. (slang)A hasty departure.

  11. (obsolete, uncountable)In early use often in the form the bunk.

Examples

77 sentences
  1. Tom was asleep on the bunk.

    ruТом спал на койке.

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  2. Tom is asleep on his bunk.

    ruТом спит в своей койке.

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  3. Tom sleeps on the bottom bunk.

    ruТом спит на нижней койке.

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  4. Tom is relaxing on his bunk.

    ruТом отдыхает на своей койке.

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  5. Tom slept on the top bunk.

    ruТом спал на верхней койке.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one of a series of berth in tiers:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one of a series of berth in tiers:

Origin

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), th

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.

Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.

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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Forms

plural: bunks
Singularbunk
Pluralbunks

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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